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

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In writing, you must kill all your darlings.

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

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

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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 past is never dead. It's not even past.

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

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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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