A man who doesn’t dream is like a man who doesn’t sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.
TRUMAN CAPOTEIt’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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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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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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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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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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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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Past certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder; it is best done when one is a child; after that, and if you are lucky, you will find a bridge of childhood and walk across it.
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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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There is nobody in the world that you can’t get if you really concentrate on it, if you really want them. You’ve got to want it to the exclusion of everything else.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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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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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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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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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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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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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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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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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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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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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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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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