Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
TRUMAN CAPOTEPast 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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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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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.
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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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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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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can’t have too many friends because then you’re just not really friends.
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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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Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
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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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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there’s no point in it….for me, every act of the art of solving a mystery.
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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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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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