How do I look so young? Quite simple: a complete vegetable diet, 12 hours sleep a night, and lots and lots of make-up.
TRUMAN CAPOTEIt’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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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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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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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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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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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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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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The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
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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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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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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 work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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