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Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.

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
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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Block Book Kings
Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.
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Audience Discovery Experience Joy Pleasure Schooled
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted
None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Design Difficult Simplicity Software
With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Majority Purpose Shoulders
Eats first, morals after.
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Eat Firsts Moral
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Laughing Laughter Men
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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Desire Reality Understanding
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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Acting Men People
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
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

Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.

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