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"In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage."
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"Because that's the thing about depression. When I feel it deeply, I don't want to let it go. It becomes a comfort. I want to cloak myself under its heavy weight and breathe it into my lungs. I want to nurture it, grow it, cultivate it. It's mine. I want to check out with it, drift asleep wrapped in its arms and not wake up for a long, long time."
"I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him."
"I knew I should be grateful to Mrs Guinea, only I couldn't feel a thing. If Mrs Guinea had given me a ticket to Europe, or a round-the-world cruise, it wouldn't have made one scrap of difference to me, because wherever I sat - on the deck of a ship or a street cafe in Paris or Bangkok - I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air."
"Though the darkness sometimes lifted just enough so I could construe my surroundings, familiar shapes solidifying like bedroom furniture at dawn, my relief was never more than temporary because somehow the full morning never came, things always went black before I could orient myself and there I was again with ink poured in my eyes, guttering around in the dark."
"That is how I experience life, as apocalypse and cataclysm. Each day brings an increasing inability in myself to make the smallest gesture, even to imagine myself confronting clear, real situations.The presence of others - always such an unexpected event for the soul - grows daily more painful and distressing. Talking to others makes me shudder. If they show any interest in me, I flee. If they look at me, I tremble.I am constantly on the defensive. Life and other people bruise me. I can't look reality in the eye. The sun itself leaves me feeling discouraged and desolate."
"I lived in a really dark place. I wasn't safe in my own mind. I woke up every morning hoping to die and then spent the rest of the day wondering if maybe I was already dead because I couldn't even tell the difference."
"I buried my head under the darkness of the pillow and pretended it was night. I couldn't see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to."
"He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian."
"In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known - no wonder, then, that I return the love."
"I imagine there's a market for total depression. I grew up on George Jones and that really dark stuff."
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"I moved to Princeton, Indiana, and became a professional Farm Manager for that Princeton Farms."
"It proved easier to buy the farm to get the mineral rights than to buy the coal rights alone."
"I opened an office in Terre Haute, established eight of them, and became one of the eight county agents."
"We dried continuously day and night. We had no efficient way to do it, so we built this new popcorn plant."
"Most of the competition was into bulk popcorn because of the major increases in the Drive-In Theatre Outlets."
"The cobs were delivered to a big pile. We were one of the first to feed corn cobs to cattle."
"I had popcorn all over the place, so I decided I might as well be in the Processing Business."
"We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn."
"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."
"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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