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

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

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

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

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Hemingway was a jerk. - Harold Robbins

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