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Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.

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
Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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Art Embrace Hands War
For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables.
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Order Reality Tables
Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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Able Strong Theatre
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
He who fights, can lose. He who doesn’t fight, has already lost.
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Fighting Loses Lost
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
Grub first, then ethics.
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Cooking First Food
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Cheesy Funny Gone Good Morning
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
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
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing

Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.

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