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 BRECHTWith drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.
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There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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Right is its own defense.
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Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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Temptation to behave is terrible.
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