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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.

Truman Capote

Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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Feeling Home Myself
The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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Actor Better Himself Stupidity
The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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Quiet Reply Voice
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
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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Born Law Learning Music Painting Perspective Writing Yourself
Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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Anxiety Mental Myself
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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Dangerous Friendship Funny Money Sleep World Yourself
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
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
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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Legs Love Man Marriage Mindset Promise Sex Woman
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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Life Paper Pieces Reach Tired
There were hints of sunrise on the rim of the sky, yet it was still dark, and the traces of morning color were like goldfish swimming in ink.
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Darkness Gold Morning Nature Rise Sky Sun
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
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
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
Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
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Listening Secret Trouble

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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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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