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.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThe quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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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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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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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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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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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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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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A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
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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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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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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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