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"I want to be a big, fleshy voluptuous woman with curves. I want a big bum, but I don't have one."
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Personal Development
"I do want to go another way - to write something completely different."
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Personal Development
"You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say."
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Personal Development
"I didn't want to wear a checked shirt and grow a mustache - that's what you had to do, and everyone did."
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Personal Development
"Make sure you visualize what you really want, not what someone else wants for you."
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Personal Development
"Everyone seemed to want a piece of Ronald Reagan. It was maddening."
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Personal Development
"It's not to late to... ask yourself if you really are the person you want to be, and if not, who you do want to be."
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Personal Development
"Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it."
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Personal Development
"I think we all want to be remembered for what we did."
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Personal Development
"You can never get enough of what you don't want."
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"When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I lived a more or less vapid and ordinary life until I was ten."
Family
"Just why I sent it to the publishers would be hard to say, but when I had finished it I felt that it was literature, because it is real and because it was well written. And I know that the world wants such things."
Literature
"I love devils."
Love
"Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book is not even remotely suggestive. I call things by their names. That is all."
Truth
"The book, you understand, was not written for publication. It was the portrayal of my emotions, the analysis of my own soul life during three months of my nineteenth year. I wrote then all the time, just as I do now, but, though the book is in diary form, it is not a diary."
Life
"There is really no right and wrong. I recognize no right and wrong."
Risk
"I do not see any beauty in self-restraint."
Beauty
"I read of the Kalamazoo girl who killed herself after reading the book. I am not at all surprised. She lived in Kalamazoo, for one thing, and then she read the book."
Reading
"Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things."
Happiness
"I've never made plans for more than a day ahead."
Opportunity
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