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"In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage."
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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."
"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."
"I was tired and crazy and rushed, and every time I boarded a plane, I wanted the plane to crash. I envied people dying of cancer. I hated my life. I was tired and bored with my job and my furniture, and I couldn't see any way to change things.Only end them."
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"The cobs were delivered to a big pile. We were one of the first to feed corn cobs to cattle."
"It proved easier to buy the farm to get the mineral rights than to buy the coal rights alone."
"We dried continuously day and night. We had no efficient way to do it, so we built this new popcorn plant."
"I opened an office in Terre Haute, established eight of them, and became one of the eight county agents."
"Most of the competition was into bulk popcorn because of the major increases in the Drive-In Theatre Outlets."
"We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn."
"I moved to Princeton, Indiana, and became a professional Farm Manager for that Princeton Farms."
"Every once in a while, someone will mail me a single popcorn kernel that didn't pop. I'll get out a fresh kernel, tape it to a piece of paper and mail it back to them."
"I had popcorn all over the place, so I decided I might as well be in the Processing Business."
"We got to know the competition very well. In the '50s popcorn made a big growth in sales. Our main push was to produce the best quality and sell in quality retail outlets."
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