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A middle child, I was born in the depths of the Great Depression. My dad and mom were factory workers, struggling to make ends meet.

~Dennis L. Mckiernan

Topics: Born Child Dad Depression Depths Ends Factory Great Great Depression Make Meet Middle Mom Struggling Were Workers I Was Born

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My parents were both born in 1930. They grew up during the Depression. They wanted their children to have secure lives, to have a good salary and a pension plan. If I could've guaranteed that I'd be a best-selling writer, that would've been one thing, but nobody could say that. So I knew better than to say that was ambition.

~Diana Gabaldon

Topics: Ambition Been Better Born Both Children Could Depression Good Grew Guaranteed Knew Lives Nobody One Thing Parents Pension Plan Salary Say Secure Than Thing Up Wanted Were Writer

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Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.

~Dick Cavett

Topics: Again Better Depression Function Gets Happens Irony Little Patient Perhaps Saddest Sufficiently Suicide

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The authority of depression is horrifying. I felt like my brain was busted and that I could never feel good again. I really thought that I was never gonna heal.

~Dick Cavett

Topics: Again Authority Brain Busted Could Depression Feel Feel Good Felt Gonna Good Heal Horrifying Like Never Really Thought

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It was well after college that I learned about depression. I got my first job for Jack Paar. I realized I was sleeping 14 hours a day and just living for the Paar show.

~Dick Cavett

Topics: About After College Day Depression First First Job Got Hours Jack Job Just Just Living Learned Living Realized Show Sleeping Well

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The greatest benefit of depression is the fact that when I have talked about it, every so often someone comes up and says, 'You saved my dad's life.'

~Dick Cavett

Topics: About Benefit Dad Depression Every Fact Greatest Life Often Saved Says Someone Talked Up You

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Depression - it falls into that small category of things like combat that, if you haven't been in it, you can say you can imagine it all you like. But it's truly different.

~Dick Cavett

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All three of my parents - I also had a stepmother - were teachers, and my dad taught high school, and as he always reminded me when I was going to spend some money on something, 'Your mother and I, in the Depression, had to decide whether to spend a dime on a loaf of bread or if we could go to a movie with it.'

~Dick Cavett

Topics: Also Always Bread Could Dad Decide Depression Dime Go Going Had He High High School Loaf Me Money Mother Movie Parents Reminded School Some Something Spend Stepmother Taught Teachers Three Were Whether Your

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My brother and I laughed a lot as kids. We came up in the middle of the Depression, and neither one of us knew we were poor. We had nothing, but we didn't know it.

~Dick Van Dyke

Topics: Brother Came Depression Had Kids Knew Know Laughed Lot Middle Neither Nothing Poor Up Us Were

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Kids in the entertainment industry are at a risk of developing depression, as they see glamour at an early age.

~Divyanka Tripathi

Topics: Age Depression Developing Early Early Age Entertainment Entertainment Industry Glamour Industry Kids Risk See

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