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The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love, having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface.

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There were hints of sunrise on the rim of the sky, yet it was still dark, and the traces of morning color were like goldfish swimming in ink.
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Darkness Gold Morning Nature Rise Sky Sun
It’s a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something down out of them.
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Life Paper Pieces Reach Tired
It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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Choice Myself Natural Normal Ordinary
Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
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Born Law Learning Music Painting Perspective Writing Yourself
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
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Greatness Happiness Music Myself Word Writing
A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That’s why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
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Conversation Goodness Intelligence Scarcity Talk
The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman, because he’ll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel.
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Dangerous Friendship Funny Money Sleep World Yourself
Good writing is rewriting.
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Goodness One Liner Writing
Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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Feeling Home Myself
I always write the end of everything first. I always write the last chapters of my books before I write the beginning. Then I go back to the beginning. I mean, it’s always nice to know where you’re going is my theory.
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Beginning Book End Myself Theory Writing
The wind is us– it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.
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Leaving Remember Talk Voice Wind
And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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Breathe Moments Rain
It’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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Funny Intelligence Lose Science Stay Yourself
A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
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Art Magic Mathematics Mystery Science Work
I can see every monster as they come in.
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Monster Myself See
Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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Friendship Important Myself Relationship Thinking

The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love, having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface.

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The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love, having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface.

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