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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.

Bertolt Brecht

Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Book Men Weapons
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
The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions.
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Children Hate Ignorance
For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.
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Allies Art Mean
In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.
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Dark Inspirational Singing
Love is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
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Gone Love Sad Taste
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
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.
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Bad Good Luck
What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Joy Nightmare One Other
When you name yourself, you always name another.
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Always Another Names
Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Politics Suppose War
When the praying does no good, insurance does help.
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Helping Insurance Praying
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
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

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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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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