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The bosses did all his thinking for him, and that somehow made life easier. But what would it be like when he got out?
Easy money had no weight: you didn’t feel you’d earned it. What you get for a song you won’t have for long, the old folks used to say, and they were right.
It was hard starting a day’s work in such cold, but that was all you had to do, make a start, and the rest was easy.
A genius doesn’t adjust his treatment of a theme to a tyrant’s taste.”
Normal, that: one working, one watching.
Till you’ve built one house with your own hands, you’re no engineer. That’s how I see it.
If you can do two things with your hands, you’ll soon pick up another ten.
He’d got by without doctors so far. And that lot could doctor you right into your coffin.
