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First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.

Bertolt Brecht

Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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Condition Example Made Realist
The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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Children Hate Ignorance
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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Defeat Sunset Victory
You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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God Sky Storm
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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Fun People Theatre
Eats first, morals after.
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Eat Firsts Moral
The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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Bed Rivers Violent
Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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Lying Running Writing
We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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Government People War
Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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Approaching Folk Hands Knives Men
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Change Moving Stay Strong
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs

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