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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

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 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
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
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Forever Mills Wheels
You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.
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Tree Wood Writing
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
Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.
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Curse Poverty Wise
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Death Fear Life
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
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Defeat Sunset Victory
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.
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Democracy Favors Freedom
Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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Change Enemy Littles
When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Fall Rain Summer
But something’s missing.
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Lot Missing Something
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

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