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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
Boy Meets Girl, So What?
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Boys Broken Girl Heart
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
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Lasts People War
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
The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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Laughing Laughter Men
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
Only bad generals need heroes.
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General Hero Needs
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it’s all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It’s the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.
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Government People War
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
One must live well to know what living is.
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Knows Live Must Well
Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Impact Lying Mistakes
The fate of man is man.
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Fate Men Trust
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
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Art Mirrors Special
It isn’t important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
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Acceptance Important Matters

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