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One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.

Bertolt Brecht

People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Long People Silly
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
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) andsets (transparencies, film strips, etc.). Its main purpose is to place the staged events in their historical context.
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Art Epic Film History Purpose Song
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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People Today World
War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Life Love Military
Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
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Approaching Folk Hands Knives Men
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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Happiness Hero Land
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
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
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Majority Purpose Shoulders

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