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There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.

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
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Defect Men Thinking
I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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Brains Cart Front Patch Skull
When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Fall Rain Summer
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
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
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Features Hatred
Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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Criminals Doe Lying
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
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
Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!
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Alabama Bye Moon
A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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Giving Men Police Six Street Time
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom

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