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

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

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

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

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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.

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

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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.

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