A boy has to peddle his book.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThe better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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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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The good thing about masturbation is that you don’t have to get dressed up for it.
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Most people who become suddenly famous overnight will find that they lose practically eighty percent of their friends. Your old friends just can’t stand it for some reason.
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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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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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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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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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?
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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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If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there’s no point in it….for me, every act of the art of solving a mystery.
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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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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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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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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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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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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
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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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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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