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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

Truman Capote

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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Advice Boundary Brain Heart Love Rise Surface Weight
You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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Blame Character Talk Writing
It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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Better Deep Live Sky
There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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Cruelty Forgiveness Mistake Sin
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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Difficult Myself Novel View Writing
The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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Advice Brain Heart
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
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
The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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Quiet Reply Voice
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
Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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Life Love Nature Science
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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Act Bad Goodness Life Play Writing
Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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Greatness Growth Patience Time
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
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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Conversation Goodness Intelligence Scarcity Talk
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

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

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