The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
TRUMAN CAPOTEAre the dead as lonesome as the living?
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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
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Reading dreams. That’s what started her walking down the road. Every day she’d walk a little further: a mile, and come home. Two miles, and come home. One day she just kept on.
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Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
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It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something
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The good thing about masturbation is that you don’t have to get dressed up for it.
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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Yes: but aren’t love and marriage notoriously synonymous in the minds of most women? Certainly very few men get the first without promising the second: love, that is–if it’s just a matter of spreading her legs, almost any woman will do that for nothing.
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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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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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A man who doesn’t dream is like a man who doesn’t sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.
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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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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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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from which it’s going to be told.
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Good luck and believe me, dearest Doc – it’s better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear.
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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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It’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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