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And when you’re poor, you grow up fast.

Billie Holiday

In this country, don’t forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There’s no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it’s the worst kind of hell for those who love you.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Country Forget Hell Love Privacy Yourself
Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three.
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Marriage Myself Parents Young
God has blessed you when he lets you believe in somebody.
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Believe Blessing God Yourself
Sometimes it’s worse to win a fight than to lose.
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Fight Lose Time Win Worst
People don’t understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it.
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Fight Kind People Record Understand Yourself
I never hurt nobody but myself and that’s nobody’s business but my own.
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Business Hurt Myself
I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.
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Chance Myself Play Work
New Orleans is the only city in the world you go in to buy a pair of nylon stockings they want to know your head size.
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Clothes Weird World Yourself
Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.
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Emotion Feeling Love
I’m always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I’ve been.
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Myself Return
Don’t threaten me with love, baby. Let’s just go walking in the rain.
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Love Rain Threat Walk
A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.
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Kiss Love Sex Taste Wasted
When Lester plays, he almost seems to be singing; one can almost hear the words.
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Hear Himself Play Singing Word
Lust may be in the heart, though it be not seen by others; as guests may be in the house, though they look not out at the windows.
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Heart Home Lust Window
The only reason they’re out there is to see me fall into the damn orchestra pit.
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Fall Myself Reason See
I never sing a song the same way twice.
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Myself Sing Song

And when you’re poor, you grow up fast.

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