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I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.

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
There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
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
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
Pleasures First look from morning’s window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons
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Book Change Dog Morning
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
On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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Brother Cities Thinking
In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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Dark Inspirational Singing
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
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
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
None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food

I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.

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I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.

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