The next time you try to seduce anyone, don't do it with talk, with words. Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.

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In writing, you must kill all your darlings.

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

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

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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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I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.

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Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.

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

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

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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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