Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.

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How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.

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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.

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Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.

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The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.

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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.

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I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are.

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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

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Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.

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