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Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.

Truman Capote

I remember things the way they should have been.
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Imagination Myself Remember Way
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
A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
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Art Magic Mathematics Mystery Science Work
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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Act Bad Goodness Life Play Writing
Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
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Book Children Shoot Yourself
Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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Feeling Home Myself
And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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Breathe Moments Rain
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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Conversation Goodness Intelligence Scarcity Talk
I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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Future Myself Past Talk
The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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Law Live Problem Protection
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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Age Children Difficult Luck Past Wisdom Yourself
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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Believe Death Deep End God
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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Advice Boundary Brain Heart Love Rise Surface Weight
You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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Blame Character Talk Writing
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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Bond Friendship Job Time 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

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