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

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

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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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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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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'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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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

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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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