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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.

Bertolt Brecht

Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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Fall Men Tiles
The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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Finest Spoil
Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace
Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
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Anger Dies Moral
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men
The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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Lasts People War
Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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Belief Men Running
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!”
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Cutting Men Transfusion War
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Life Love Military
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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Fool Government Splits
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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Storm Tree Violent

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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