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> [I guess the best way to describe that would be to connect with the fact that I came out of college just before the big Depression, and I came to New York.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ella-baker/i-guess-the-best-way-to-describe-that-would-be-to-connect-with-the/)

[Ella Baker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ella-baker/)

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> [“...my big depression. For six months I languished at the bottom of a deep hole, like the shaft of a waterless well, while kindly, puzzled people...peered down at me over the rim of the parapet and tried to cheer me…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-lodge/my-big-depression-for-six-months-i-languished-at-the-bottom-of-a-deep/)

[David Lodge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-lodge/)

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