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"In those days, between the ages of 12 and 18 you meant nothing. You were the extra place at the side table if someone came to dinner. You were of no interest to anyone."
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"There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us."

"Every thoughtful and kind-hearted person must regard with interest any device or plan which promises to enable at least the more intelligent, enterprising, and determined part of those who are not capitalists to cease to labor for hire."

"But there has also been a notable increase in recent years of these applications by a much wider slice of psychotherapists - far greater interest than ever before."

"And, since the model he faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture, since the picture is going to be there on its own, it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model."

"But be that as it may, I think it is more respectful to you that I should speak to you upon and do my best to interest you in the subject which has occupied me, and in which I am myself most interested."

"I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest."

"One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void."

"I don't know how anyone could vote Republican. It's so obvious that their only interest is keeping the rich rich."
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"I can't explain why one wants to pass a particular sort of pain onto other people, but you do."

"The British feel of blues has been hard, rather than emotional. Far too much emphasis on 12 bar, too little attention to words, far too little originality."

"I must have been heavily schizophrenic all my life. The me who hears what the other me can't play is the dominant one."

"Every musical movement that is big enough has to produce some good musicians who wouldn't have had the incentive to start playing without it."

"The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters."

"If the same phrase in the same place created the right effect, I was perfectly prepared to use it every time. I wasn't worried that I wasn't improvising."

"In 1940 I came across a record by Jimmy Yancey. I can't say how important that record is. From then on, all I wanted to do was play the blues."
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