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

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

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

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

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