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Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!

Bertolt Brecht

For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
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
Eats first, morals after.
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Eat Firsts Moral
What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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Peace Running War
The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men
Right is its own defense.
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Defense Literature Own Right
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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Fall Rain Summer
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Poverty Wells Wise
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
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Art Living Service
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
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Fool Government Splits
Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool… Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal.
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Criminals Doe Lying
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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Children Hate Ignorance

Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We’ve lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!

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