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I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?

Bertolt Brecht

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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Alabama Bye Moon
Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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Art Hammers Mirrors
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.
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Men Show Traded
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Majority Purpose Shoulders
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
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
When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Mean World
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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Dark Inspirational Singing
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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Defeat Sunset Victory
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.
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Features Hatred

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