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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?

Truman Capote

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
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
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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Failure Flavor Inspirational Motivational Perspective Success
Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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Confidence Yourself
Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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Greatness Growth Patience Time
I remember things the way they should have been.
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Imagination Myself Remember Way
It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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Better Deep Live Sky
The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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Actor Better Himself Stupidity
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
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Greatness Happiness Music Myself Word Writing
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
And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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Breathe Moments Rain
It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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Jealous Love Person
The good thing about masturbation is that you don’t have to get dressed up for it.
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Appearance Clothes Funny Goodness Sex 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
We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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Leaving Sky Time Understand
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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Believe Better Country Disappearance Goodness Live Luck

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