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J. K. Rowling Novelist, Screenwriter
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"Everyone wanted my emotions to be very simple. They wanted me to say, "I was poor and I was unhappy, and now I've got money and I'm really happy.""

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Jack London Novelist, Journalist
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"Avoid the unhappy ending, the harsh, the brutal, the tragic, the horrible -- if you care to see in print things you write. (In this connection don't do as I do, but do as I say."

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Neil Gaiman Author
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"I am the most unhappy soul alive." "I'd heard it said that fairies have no souls." "Then do I ache, and bleed, and smart, elsewhere; still, call it soul for it is solely mine."

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Marcus Aurelius Philosopher, Emperor
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"Unhappy am I because this has happened to me.- Not so, but happy am I, though this has happened to me, because I continue free from pain, neither crushed by the present nor fearing the future."

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"I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life."

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Leo Tolstoy Novelist, Philosopher
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"Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past."

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Leo Tolstoy Novelist, Philosopher
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"What is reason given me for, if I am not to use it to avoid bringing unhappy beings into the world!"

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Leo Tolstoy Novelist, Philosopher
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"I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's ashamed, but he's not unhappy."

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Mark Twain Writer, Humorist
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"If there is one thing that is really cheerful in the world, it is cheerfulness. I have noticed it often. And I have noticed that when a man is right down cheerful, he is seldom unhappy for the time being. Such is the nature of man."

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Lily Allen Singer-Songwriter
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"I wasn't into anything at school. I used to get really embarrassed. I used to get asked to do performing things, and I'd go to all the rehearsals, and then I'd pretend to be ill on the day I had to actually perform. I was very unhappy at school."

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