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That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.
(Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), U.S. author. letter, Sept. 13, 1929, to F. Scott Fitzgerald. Selected Letters, ed. Carlos Baker (1981).
Biographer and critic Leon Edel observed, in a 1988 interview, "The greatest enemy of writers is depression, which they can't avoid.")
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Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement.
(Herbert Hoover (1874-1964), U.S. president. Ed. Arnold S. Rice, Herbert Hoover, 1874-1964: ChronologyDocumentsBibliographical Aids, p. 61, Dobbs Ferry (1971).)
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When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.
(Jesse Jackson (b. 1941), U.S. clergyman, civil rights leader. Interview in The Americans, "When Whites Are Unemployed, It's Called a Depression," David Frost (1970).)
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I cling to depression, thinking it a form of truth.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Third Selection, New York (1986).)
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Depression is melancholy minus its charms—the animation, the fits.
(Susan Sontag (b. 1933), U.S. essayist. Illness As Metaphor, ch. 7 (1978).)
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The chief lesson of the Depression should never be forgotten. Even our liberty-loving American people will sacrifice their freedom and their democratic principles if their security and their very lives are threatened by another breakdown of our free enterprise system. We can no more afford another general depression than we can afford another total war, if democracy is to survive.
(Agnes E. Meyer (1887-1970), U.S. journalist. Out of These Roots, ch. 7 (1953).)
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Unless you are political or intellectual, events like the Depression are seen as personal events. We thought of the Depression as something that made the pipes freeze; we thought it hit us because Daddy didn't move his taxi stand and because he broke his hip. It was only later I found out it was a national phenomenon.
(Florynce R. Kennedy (b. 1916), African American lawyer, activist, speaker, and author. Color Me Flo, ch. 2 (1976).
Kennedy was a daughter of a black family of modest means in Kansas City, Missouri.)
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We're in the money, the skies are sunny; old man depression, you are through, you done us wrong!
(Al Dubin (1891-1945), U.S. songwriter. "The Gold Diggers' Song—We're in the Money," Gold Diggers of 1933, Remick Music Corp. (1933).
Music composed by Harry Warren (1893-1981).)
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Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist—a demonic, elemental, bestial pessimist—only when life has been defeated many times in its fight against depression.
(E.M. Cioran (b. 1911), Romanian-born French philosopher. "Capitulation," On the Heights of Despair (1934).)
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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.
(Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855), Danish philosopher. "Diapsalmata," vol. 1, Either/Or (1843, trans. 1987).)
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