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One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.

Bertolt Brecht

Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
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
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
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
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
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Men Scholarship Turns
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
I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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Going Hurry Like
The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Knives Order Sweat
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.
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Men Struggle Years
Unhappiness doesn’t grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won’t fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man’s doing.
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Fall Men Tiles
General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Bother Carries Defect Faster General Man Storm
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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Dammed Easy Important
Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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Able Strong Theatre
The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly
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Comfortable Dog Newspaper Planting Shoe Singing
I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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Clothes Feelings Writing
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
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Black Proposition Running Sensible Show Support
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
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Bank Initiative Robbery
Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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Bird Perspective Squirrels
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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Bears Creating Earth

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