Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
TRUMAN CAPOTEHave you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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I can see every monster as they come in.
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
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Most people who become suddenly famous overnight will find that they lose practically eighty percent of their friends. Your old friends just can’t stand it for some reason.
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A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
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How do I look so young? Quite simple: a complete vegetable diet, 12 hours sleep a night, and lots and lots of make-up.
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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
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Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down.
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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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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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A boy has to peddle his book.
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