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Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.

Bertolt Brecht

What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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Good Knows Rapture Things
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Defect Men Thinking
The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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Children Hate Ignorance
The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Laughing Laughter Men
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
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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Defeat Sunset Victory
I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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Brains Cart Front Patch Skull
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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Block Book Kings
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing

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