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Armed with a tape recorder, he has interviewed hundreds of people, producing a series of books that tell the story of the American century verbatim, and from the ground up: day-labourers, poor farmers and gangsters for Hard Times, his book about the Depression everyone from steelworkers to hookers for Working, about the realities of employment in America and his Pulitzer Prize-winning chronicle of the second world war, The Good War. Terkel has built a career on the hunch that pretty much everyone might be worth trying to talk to: the rich and famous, certainly, and burglars and murderers and Ku Klux Klansmen - but most of all the teeming, unexamined mass of American life in between.Brower, in an interview with Terkel, but much of it is sometimes misattributed to Terkel himself. Make the most of every molecule you've got as long as you've got a second to go. You've got to get out this information, this knowledge, because you've got something to pass on. Think of what's stored in an 80- or a 90-year-old mind.Having a buck or two in your pocket and feeling like somebody. Know why? Because nobody dares contradict you. Einstein said everything had changed since the atom was split, except the way we think. Absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely. You know, 'power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely'? It's the same with powerlessness.You didn't mean it.' I said, 'But I did mean it!' To this day people say, 'Oh, Studs, you were so heroic.' Heroic? I was scared shitless! But my ego was at stake. All you got to do is say the communists duped you. don't you know the communists were behind them?' And he said, 'Look, you can get out of this pretty easy. He says, 'These petitions, your name is on all of them: anti-poll tax, anti-lynching, friendship with the Soviet Union. ' I never knew I felt that way before' … That's pretty hot stuff, isn't it? That's hot stuff. and so I play it back, and she listens to what she said on the tape and she says, 'Oh my God,' she says. For the first book, I interviewed one mother of four little kids, skinny, pretty, bad teeth - meaning no dental care - and the kids are jumping around, 'cause they want to hear their mamma's voice played back.I'm celebrated for celebrating the uncelebrated.Online interview: 'Voice of America' by Oliver Burkeman in The Guardian (1 March 2002) On breaking his hip, as quoted in 'How Studs helps me lead my life' in Roger Ebert's Journal ().I was walking downstairs carrying a drink in one hand and a book in the other.Regarding his 95th birthday in 'Give 'Em Hell, Mr.That tells you a little about the fairness of life. I was born in the year the Titanic sank.Chicago is not the most corrupt American city, it's the most theatrically corrupt.On Nelson Algren, Talking to Myself Bk.At a time when pimpery, lick-spittlery, and picking the public's pocket are the order of the day - indeed, officially proclaimed as virtue - the poet must play the madcap to keep his balance.

Conversation with Lessing in 1969, quoted in 'Doris Lessing comes to town' (15 October 1969) by Roger Ebert.

Terkel: Yes, but these days they're mostly in business, or politics. Doris Lessing: We simply have no idea of Chicago … We never think of you as being on a lake, or of the city being beautiful.On seeing a 1956 performance by Billie Holiday, Talking to Myself Bk.In sensing her mortality, we sensed our own. Something was still there, that something that distinguishes an artist from a performer: the revealing of self.

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