When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” 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.
BERTOLT BRECHTRealist 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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You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.
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In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
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One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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