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What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?

Bertolt Brecht

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
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Country Hero Needs
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods.
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Reality Taken Writing
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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Order Reality Representation
I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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About Country Live Place
The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
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Alone Happiness Joy Men
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom
A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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Giving Men Police Six Street Time
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
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
Eats first, morals after.
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Eat Firsts Moral
The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
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Storm Tree Violent
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Fire Nothing World
War is like love, it always finds a way.
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Life Love Military
Everyone needs help from everyone.
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Collaboration Helping Needs
You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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God Sky Storm
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
Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.
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Change Nothing Reality Representation
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
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
We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.
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Ground Knows Others Ourselves

What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?

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