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

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Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.

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

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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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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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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

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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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