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

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

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

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