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.
TRUMAN CAPOTEReading 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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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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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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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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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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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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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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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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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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