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"I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions?"
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"Happiness doesn't depend on reality but it depends on perception."
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"Happiness can only bloom in the garden of peace."
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"Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside."
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"I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual."
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"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."
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"You can love again."
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"Our main purpose of life is to be happy. Happiness is in simplicity, and the most amazing things about life is that it is so simple."
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"Happy people can look back and say they chose their life, not settled for it."
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"Always ask yourself what will make you happy over the long term."
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"Children are happy because they have the power of finding happiness in the simplest things."
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"At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm getting frustrated with, say, writing a poem, I can go and pick up the brushes and start painting. At the point where the painting seems to not be going anywhere, I go and pick up the guitar."
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"No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal."
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"I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions?"
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"With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again."
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"You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You don't really have any kind of spiritual law, just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life."
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"There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said."
World

"Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing."
Shame

"Buddy Holly and the early rock 'n' roll was no lighter than the way I play. It's very minimal."
Holly

"I have one piece of music, since 1997, and I don't see it having lyrics. Where does it go in this world? So I haven't recorded it."
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"This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms."
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