Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
TRUMAN CAPOTEAre the dead as lonesome as the living?
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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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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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I can see every monster as they come in.
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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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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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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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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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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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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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I remember things the way they should have been.
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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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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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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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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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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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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
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It’s a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something down out of them.
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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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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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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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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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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