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

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

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

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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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In writing, you must kill all your darlings.

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

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

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

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