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They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the world: where then could we look for reassurance of our identities?

Truman Capote

It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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Better Deep Live Sky
Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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Friendship Important Myself Relationship Thinking
I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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Believe Funny Myself Scissor
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
Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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Dead Live Lonely One Liner Philosophy Spiritual
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
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
Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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Feeling Home Myself
I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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Future Myself Past Talk
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
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
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
The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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Actor Better Himself Stupidity
I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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Day Life Live Myself Theory Time
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
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
We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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Leaving Sky Time Understand
I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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Care Myself Opinion True
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
The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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Advice Brain Heart
Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down.
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Bad Difference Fun Goodness Myself Stop True Writing
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
I always write the end of everything first. I always write the last chapters of my books before I write the beginning. Then I go back to the beginning. I mean, it’s always nice to know where you’re going is my theory.
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Beginning Book End Myself Theory Writing
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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Appearance Make Up Myself Night Quite Simplicity Young
And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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Breathe Moments Rain
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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Failure Flavor Inspirational Motivational Perspective Success

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