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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

For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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Order Reality Tables
One must live well to know what living is.
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Knows Live Must Well
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Fear Today Triumph
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
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Bother Carries Defect Faster General Man Storm
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
When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Mean World
You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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Breaths Finals Fresh Start
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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Bears Creating Earth
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Knives Order Sweat

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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