The good thing about masturbation is that you don’t have to get dressed up for it.
TRUMAN CAPOTEIt is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something
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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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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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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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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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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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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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A boy has to peddle his book.
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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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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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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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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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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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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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