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Joni Mitchell

"Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing."

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"Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing."

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"The shame that tormented me was all the more corrosive for having no very clear origin: I didn't know why I felt so tainted, and worthless, and wrong-only that I did, and whenever I looked up from my books I was swamped by slimy waters rushing in from all sides."

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