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

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

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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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In writing, you must kill all your darlings.

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

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

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

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