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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.

Truman Capote

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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Dreams Herself Home Oneself Reading Road Start Walk
I can see every monster as they come in.
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Monster Myself See
Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
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Deep Existence Future Man Past Philosophy Wisdom Yourself
They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the world: where then could we look for reassurance of our identities?
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Destroy Identity Mirror Reaasuarnce Romantic Secret Torture
I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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Care Myself Opinion True
I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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Believe Funny Myself Scissor
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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Act Bad Goodness Life Play Writing
It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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Better Deep Live Sky
It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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Jealous Love Person
Everybody has to feel superior to somebody,” she said. “But it’s customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.
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Evidence Feeling Present Privilege
The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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Quiet Reply Voice
Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
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Listening Secret Trouble
Personally, I rather think that if you’re not creative you’ve got a problem on your hands. If you are creative you’ve got a double problem.
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Creativity Double Hands Personal Problem Thinking Yourself
Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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Dead Live Lonely One Liner Philosophy Spiritual
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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Difficult Myself Novel View 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

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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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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