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“And I like Strauss and Mozart and all that, but the priceless gift that African Americans gave the world when they were still in slavery was a gift so great that it is now almost the only reason many foreigners still like us at least a little bit. That specific remedy for the worldwide epidemic of depression is a gift called the blues. All pop music today-jazz, swing, be-bop, Elvis Presley, the Beatles, the Stones, rock and roll, hip hop and on and on- is derived from the blues.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

“It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

“Tā dzīvoju mēnešiem. Laidu akmentiņus caur pirkstiem: neviens neiemirdzas. Situ ar āmuru pa pirkstiem: neviens nesāp. Un tad tu parādījies!”
― Imants Ziedonis, Epifānijas

“I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's
why.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men