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"If you want to be happy, be."
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Personal Development
"When you focus on want, you become an endless cycle of wants."
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Personal Development
"Only those who want everything done for them are bored."
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Personal Development
"I do want to go another way - to write something completely different."
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Personal Development
"If you want to be loved, be lovable."
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Personal Development
"Don't say "the White House wants." Buildings can't want."
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Personal Development
"I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me."
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Personal Development
"I didn't want it to be a book that made pronouncements."
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Personal Development
"I'm not going to become anybody I don't want to become."
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Personal Development
"Star Trek has brought so much of what I want within my grasp."
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"I want to live quietly."
Want
"The only joy I had was writing what was. That book was. It no longer amuses me to be all the things I was when I wrote that. But it is my story as I was then."
Joy
"Let me but make a beginning, let me but strike the world in a vulnerable spot, and I can take it by storm."
Beginning
"I was born to be alone, and I always shall be; but now I want to be."
Now
"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
"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
"One must always say things that aim to interest, because in the world one must after all pay for one's keep."
Interest
"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
"I love devils."
Love
"I do not see any beauty in self-restraint."
Beauty
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