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Boy Meets Girl, So What?

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 held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
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
One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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People Today World
It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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Art Discovery Reality
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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Art Heart Order Philosophy
Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
If you wan to steal money, don’t rob a bank – open one.
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Money One Open Stealing
Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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Gone Love Sad Taste
I don’t trust him. We’re friends.
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Friendship Negative Trust
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
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

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