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If nobody can learn from the past, then there’s no point in raking it up.

Billie Holiday

All dope can do for you is kill you… the long hard way. And it can kill the people you love right along with you.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Hard Kill Love Yourself
The difficult I’ll do right now. The impossible will take a little while.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Difficult Impossible Inspirational Myself Right
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
And when you’re poor, you grow up fast.
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Fast Growth Poor Yourself
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 hurt nobody but myself and that’s nobody’s business but my own.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Business Hurt Myself
They think they can make fuel from horse manure – now, I don’t know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it’s sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Known Myself Stop Thinking Willing
Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what’s more than enough.
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Enough Known Limitation
Don’t threaten me with love, baby. Let’s just go walking in the rain.
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Love Rain Threat Walk
You’ve got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body’s sermon on how to behave.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Body Eat Life Love Yourself
I never sing a song the same way twice.
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Myself Sing Song
God bless the child that’s got his own.
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Blessing Children God Independent
Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.
BILLIE HOLIDAY

Emotion Feeling Love
If I don’t have friends, then I ain’t nothing.
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Friendship Myself
Sometimes it’s worse to win a fight than to lose.
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Fight Lose Time Win Worst
Singing songs like ‘The Man I Love’ or ‘Porgy’ is no more work than sitting down and eating Chinese roast duck, and I love roast duck.
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Love Myself Sing Work

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