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

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

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

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

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In writing, you must kill all your darlings.

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