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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.

Bertolt Brecht

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
It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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Art Discovery Reality
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
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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Dwelling Object People Tool
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
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don’t learn you don’t know.
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Believe Knows Learn
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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Government Party People
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Laughing Laughter Men
…it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
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Design Difficult Simplicity Software
Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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Even Greater Love Lover Peace Provided War
Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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Great Healthy Sports
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Ahead Literature Travel

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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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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