Bessie Smith quotes
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“It's a long old road, but I know I'm gonna find the end.”
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“No time to marry, no time to settle down; I'm a young woman, and I ain't done runnin' around.”
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“The Greatest Blues Singer in the World Will Never Stop Singing.”
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“I need a little sugar in my bowl and a little hot dog in my roll.”
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“I ain't good-lookin', but I'm somebody's angel child.”
-- Bessie SmithSource : Song: Reckless Blues
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“There's nineteen men livin' in my neighborhood, Eighteen of them are fools and the one ain't no doggone good.”
-- Bessie SmithSource : Song: Dirty No-Gooder's Blues
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“When my bed is empty, Makes me feel awful mean and blue. My springs are getting rusty, Living single like I do.”
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“Listen to my story and everything will come out true”
-- Bessie Smith
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“I see that time divided is never long, and that regularity abridges all things.”
Source : Abel Stevens (1881). “Madame de Staël, a Study of Her Life and Times: The First Revolution and the First Empire”
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“Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.”
Source : Abraham Cowley (1679). “The Works of Mr Abraham Cowley: Consisting of Those which Were Formerly Printed : and Those which He Design'd for the Press”, p.11
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Source : A. A. Gill (2008). “Paper view: the best of the Sunday Times television reviews”, Orion Pub Co
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Source : A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.142, Delphi Classics
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“Enlightenment is, in the end, nothing more than the natural state of being. ”
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