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I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.

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
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
It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Acceptance Important Matters
When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” 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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Become Doing Evil Invisible Suffering
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.
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Light Planning Shining
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
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Fighting May People
Don’t tell me peace has broken out.
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Broken Out Peace
Eats first, morals after.
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Eat Firsts Moral
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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Belief Men Running
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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Men Struggle Years
General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver.
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Crush Men Powerful

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