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I'm a great believer in joy and a great recommender of joy to myself, my students, my friends, my family--joy I take to have as its absolute first condition that it not--that it not seriously harm another living creature.
Reynolds Price Carolinian
Source
Interview with Terry Gross, Fresh Air, June 19, 2006
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- interview
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- Fresh Air interview
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- 2006
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