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

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

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

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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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In writing, you must kill all your darlings.

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

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

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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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