"The blues is an impulse to keep the painful details and episodes of a brutal experience alive in one's aching consciousness, to finger its jagged grain, and to transcend it, not by the consolation of philosophy but by squeezing from it a near-tragic, near-comic lyricism. As a form, the blues is an autobiographical chronicle of personal catastrophe expressed lyrically."

-- Ralph Ellison

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“After all I've done for you' has alienated more children from their parents than any act of parent cruelty.”

Source : Dorothy Rowe (2003). “Depression: The Way Out of Your Prison”, p.242, Psychology Press
“If you say you have an empty mind and you don't have an empty mind, you only know later that you have an empty mind. Because if you say you have empty mind, you don't have empty mind, because you're already thinking about it.”

Source : Source: the-attic.net
“We are with Europe but not of it. We are linked, not combined. We are interested and associated, not absorbed. And should European statesmen address us in the words that were used of old - Shall I speak for thee to the King or the Captain of the Host? - we should reply with the Shunamite woman: "Nay sir, for we dwell among our own people".”
“Working together, America's military, Iraqi security forces and the Iraqi people have won a major battle in the war on terrorism.”
“When it comes to the American dream, no one has a corner on the market. All of us have an equal chance to share in that dream.”
“All wealth is relative; and so is its absence.”

Source : Sybille Bedford (2016). “A Visit to Don Otavio: A Mexican Journey”, p.81, New York Review of Books
“Just so you know Labrodor retrivers do not howl.Begals Howl.Wolves howl. Labs do not howl, at lestnot well. Marley attempted twice to howl, both times in answer to a passing police siren, tossing back his head, forming his mouth into an O shape, and letting loose the most pathetic sound Ihave ever heard, more like gargling than answering the call of the wild. Butnow,no question about it he was howling.”
“But I also think that once you've found stuff that works, stop reading forums, stop reading reviews and just get out there and play.”

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