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"It was a lack of system that made the '30s Depression as inevitable as all others previously suffered."
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"There isn't any doubt I'm stuck in stress and depression."
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"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."
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"Much of what we called "depression" was really dissatisfaction, a result of setting a bar impossibly high or expecting treasures we weren't willing to work for."
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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."
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"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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"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 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."
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"I, I don't think anybody's continually happy, uh, except idiots, you know. You know, you have to have little moments of depression."
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"I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him."
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"I'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does."
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"It was a lack of system that made the '30s Depression as inevitable as all others previously suffered."
Depression

"Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome."
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"I do talk less now because the sound of my voice saying over and over the things I said years ago embarrasses and depresses me. Why do I say the same things over and over?"
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"My Irish derivation has nothing to do with me. Why should it?"
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"I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real."
Business

"Those offers come in now and again. They're not knocking down my door. I'm only an old character actor, and I'm not needed."
Character

"Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs."
Business

"The wages of pedantry is pain."
Pain

"We don't really need reviewers, just first-night reporters who will tell us faithfully whether or not the audience liked the show."
First

"Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man."
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