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It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.

Bertolt Brecht

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
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
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
Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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Lying Running Writing
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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Gone Love Sad Taste
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted
One must live well to know what living is.
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Knows Live Must Well
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
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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Adequately Great Recognized Understanding
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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Art Science Views Work
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain
The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men
One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
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Men Real Screen Voice

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