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Billie Holiday: If you think...

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If you think dope is for kicks and for thrills, you're out of your mind. There are more kicks to be had in a good case of paralytic polio or by living in an iron lung.

Source: Lady Sings the Blues, ch. 23 (1956; written with William Dufty; rev. 1975).
-- Billie Holiday, (Apr 7 1915-1959), US singer; She was a noted jazz vocalist whose 1956 autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues, inspired the film, 1972.


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