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"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."
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"I believe in joy, but I believe in the flip-side, agony."
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"Life is fulfilling when you are being productive."
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"You can't put a price on fun, it's always priceless."
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"Don't count your blessings, let your blessings count! EnjoyLife!"
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"When I love, I feel endorphins rushing through, that is my joy."
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"Wake up,dance with the light of the morning sun.Enjoy the warmth of her love,fell the joy of life,feel the joy of deepest gratitude."
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"Your first reaction to any attack should be joy in the Holy Ghost."
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"Deriving truth from joy may be far more easier than generating joy from the truth."
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"With every sunrise our hearts sing with joy, our minds dance with love, and our lives get new meaning"
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"You don't stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing."
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"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
"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
"I've never made plans for more than a day ahead."
Opportunity
"I have never read a line of Walt Whitman."
Reading
"You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to see that the girl of nineteen who thought herself a genius was only an unusual girl writing her heart out."
Genius
"I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be."
Genius
"Of poets I put Virgil first - he was greatest."
Criticism
"I want to write such things as compel the admiring acclamation of the world at large, such things as are written but once in years, things subtle but distinctly different from the books written every day."
Books
"I do not sing nor play, but I adore music, particularly Chopin. I like him because I cannot understand him."
Music
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