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"I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him."
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"He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian."
"Well, I did know - but I just wanted the day to pass and the next day to come and then I wanted that one to pass. It was a horrible cycle. I felt so close to having to pack the game in."
"In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage."
"When I was in Philadelphia during the Depression in 1930 or '31, I got a very sad job as a night watchman in a garage. The cars in the garage had been abandoned by their owners, since they had lost their jobs and couldn't keep up the payments."
"We'll take up where we left off, Esther', she had said, with her sweet martyr's smile. 'We'll act as if all this were a bad dream.' A bad dream. To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.A bad dream. I remembered everything."
"There isn't any doubt I'm stuck in stress and depression."
"Depression is the inability to construct a future."
"Lost serie are full of depression I think or there is some kind of like this... I don't know up to where I could get... but I will try my best."
"I imagine there's a market for total depression. I grew up on George Jones and that really dark stuff."
"This story ["The Depressed Person"] was the most painful thing I ever wrote. It's about narcissism, which is a part of depression. The character has traits of myself. I really lost friends while writing on that story, I became ugly and unhappy and just yelled at people. The cruel thing with depression is that it's such a self-centered illness - Dostoevsky shows that pretty good in his "Notes from Underground". The depression is painful, you're sapped/consumed by yourself; the worse the depression, the more you just think about yourself and the stranger and repellent you appear to others."
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"Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next."
"Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself."
"It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business."
"We have not yet reached the goal but... we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation."
"New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure."
"When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man."
"With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system."
"It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own."
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