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When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, ‘Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.’

In the crowded and difficult conditions of a steep hillside, houses have had to struggle to establish their territory and to survive.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

When you ain’t got no money, you gotta get an attitude.

When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

When I’m forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it’s all I can do to refrain from attack.

To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.

It’s possible to take that as a personal metaphor and then multiply it to a people, a race, a sex, a time. If we can keep this thing going long enough, if we can survive and teach what we know, we’ll make it.

In our early period we pretty much survived or perished on our capacity to reach people, and on getting into the pattern of having no money and playing lots of shows.