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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

Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Black Proposition Running Sensible Show Support
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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Going Hurry Like
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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Art Embrace Hands War
The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
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
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.
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Crush Men Powerful
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish

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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