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What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.

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
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Abuse Kissing Race
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
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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Fun People Theatre
First the pork chops, then morality
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Firsts Morality Pork
One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
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Men Real Screen Voice
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Demand Literature Long
There are a few things that’ll move people to pity, a few, but the trouble is, when they’ve been used several times, they no longer work.
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Moving People Trouble
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Musical Schoenberg Sweet
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
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
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible

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