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

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Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.

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

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

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

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

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Hemingway was a jerk. - Harold Robbins

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

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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.

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