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If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.

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
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
In my view, the great and complicated things that go on in the world cannot be adequately recognized by people who do not use every possible aid to understanding.
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Adequately Great Recognized Understanding
For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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Men Stars Thinking
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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Alive Sex Trying
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Black Proposition Running Sensible Show Support
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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Giving Men Police Six Street Time
Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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Art Science Views Work
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
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
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying

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