"Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose."

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Source : Billie Holiday, William Dufty (1956). “Lady sings the blues”

Billie Holiday

#Adversity Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Winning Quotes

“Russian literature saved my soul.Â When I was a young girl in school and I asked what is good and what is evil, no one in that corrupt system could show me.”
“Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in recent history, for war.”
“The difference between ordinary and extra-ordinary is so often just simply that little word - extra. And for me, I had always grown up with the belief that if someone succeeds it is because they are brilliant or talented or just better than meâ€¦ and the more of these words I heard the smaller I always felt! But the truth is often very differentâ€¦ and for me to learn that ordinary me can achieve something extra-ordinary by giving that little bit extra, when everyone else gives up, meant the world to me and I really clung to itâ€¦”
“I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.”
“I always wanted to be a writer but everyone kept telling me it was impossible to break into the field or make money. I've proven them wrong on both counts.”
“I love all kinds of music.”
“My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.”
“In London, almost all Jewish shops in the Whitechapel district were displaying placards denying entry to German salesmen and affirming their anti-Nazi boycott. Teenagers patrolled the streets distributing handbills asking shoppers to boycott German goods.....”

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