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The class I belong to always has to wait and wait, stand long nights and days in long files to get a cup of coffee and a slice of bread. Everybody in… - B. Traven
" "The class I belong to always has to wait and wait, stand long nights and days in long files to get a cup of coffee and a slice of bread. Everybody in the world, official or boss, takes it for granted that our sort of people have ages, of time to waste. It is different with those who have money. They can arrange everything with money. Therefore they never have to wait. We who cannot pay with cold cash have to pay with our time instead. Suppose you get sore at the official who lets you wait and wait, and you say something about the citizen’s right it won’t help you a bit. He then lets you wait ten times longer, and you never do it again. He is the king. Do not forget that. Don’t ever believe that kings were done with when the fathers of the country made a revolution.
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About B. Traven
(Bruno Traven in some accounts, born 23 February 1882 in Schwiebus, died 26 March 1969 in Mexico City) was the pen name of a presumably German novelist, whose real name, nationality, date and place of birth and details of biography are all subject to dispute. One of the few certainties about Traven's life is that he lived for years in Mexico, where the majority of his fiction is also set—including (1927). The film adaptation of the same name won three Academy Awards in 1948.
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Pen Names:
Robert Bek-gran
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Hal Croves
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Ret Marut
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Richard Maurhut
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Traven Torsvan
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Fred Gaudet
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Fred Mareth
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Bruno Marhut
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Red Marut
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Rex Marut
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Robert Marut
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Fred Maruth
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Goetz Öhly
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Anton Raderscheidt
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Wilhelm Scheider
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Jacob Torice
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B. T. Torsvan
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Berick Traven Torsvan
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Traves Torsvan
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Heinrich Otto Becker
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Adolf Rudolf Feige
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Herman Albert Otto Max Feige
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Otto Feige
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T. Torsvan
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Otto Wienecke
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Bruno Traven
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Albert Otto Max Wienecke
Alternative Names:
Torsvan
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Berick Torsvan
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Bernhard Traven Torsvan
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Torsvan Croves
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Traven
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We all were dead. All of us were convinced that we were on our way to the fishes. Funny that even among the dead these fine distinctions of rank and class do not cease to exist. I wonder what goes on night and day beneath the surface of a cemetery, particularly in the cemeteries of Boston, San Francisco, and Philadelphia.
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