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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

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
As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.
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Curves Distance Two
If you don’t have fun, you don’t have a show.
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Fun Inspirational Shows
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
First the grub, then the morals.
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Firsts Miscellaneous Moral
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
Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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Art Fashion Mean
Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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Able Strong Theatre
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence
Come in, dear wind, and be our guest You too have neither home nor rest.
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Guest Home Wind
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too
With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Majority Purpose Shoulders
The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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Knives Order Sweat
I’m in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
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Clothes Feelings Writing
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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Already Fighting May

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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