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Bertolt Brecht

Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
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
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
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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Bird Perspective Squirrels
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
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Giving Love Wish
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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Appreciation Littles Progress
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Acceptance Important Matters
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Happiness Hero Land
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel

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