“The main objective is to learn to think crudely. Crude thinking is the great one’s thinking.”

—  Bertolt Brecht , book Threepenny Novel

Dreigroschenroman (1934), reprinted in Gesammelte Werke, vol. 13 (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1967), 916.

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