The good thing about masturbation is that you don’t have to get dressed up for it.
TRUMAN CAPOTEAnd in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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It’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
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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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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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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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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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One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from which it’s going to be told.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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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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I can see every monster as they come in.
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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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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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A man who doesn’t dream is like a man who doesn’t sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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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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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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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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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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