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Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.

Bertolt Brecht

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
People cannot remain good unless good is expected of them.
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Expected Good People Remain
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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Common Folk Lying War
There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.
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Brain Division Labor
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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Kind Silence Tree
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
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
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
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
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Defect Men Thinking
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
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Fall Hurt Rain
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
Young Alexander conquered India. He alone? Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears? Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who Triumphed with him?
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Army War Years
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

Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.

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