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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

Truman Capote

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
In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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Bloom Break Flower Garden Nature Voice Yourself
I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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Future Myself Past Talk
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
We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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Leaving Sky Time Understand
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
Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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Dead Live Lonely One Liner Philosophy Spiritual
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
There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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Cruelty Forgiveness Mistake Sin
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
I can see every monster as they come in.
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Monster Myself See
It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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Choice Myself Natural Normal Ordinary
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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Failure Flavor Inspirational Motivational Perspective Success
You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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Blame Character Talk Writing
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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Concentration Focus World Yourself
The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
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Enemy Himself Leaving

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