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The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.

Bertolt Brecht

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
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
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
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
People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Long People Silly
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
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
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
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Clean Coffins Literature Underwear
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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Dwelling Object People Tool
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
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
To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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Finesse Mean Process
For what’s the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?
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Men Stars Thinking
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral

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