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Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.

Bertolt Brecht

There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Being Good Human Nature Taste
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
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain
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
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
There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
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Latter Stupidity Workers
For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Clever Lying Smart
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
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Contentment Country Sacrifice
Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Be Kind Kindness Wanted
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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Humor One Righteous Sense
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Collapse House Littles
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Founding Funny Money Robbing
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
I opened the man’s skull and messed about with his brains. I saw how they patched fellows up, so as to cart them back to the Front as quickly as they could.
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Brains Cart Front Patch Skull

Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.

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