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It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something

Truman Capote

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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Destroy Identity Mirror Reaasuarnce Romantic Secret Torture
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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Dreams Man Poison Store
The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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Advice Brain Heart
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
Past certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder; it is best done when one is a child; after that, and if you are lucky, you will find a bridge of childhood and walk across it.
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Age Children Difficult Luck Past Wisdom Yourself
And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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Breathe Moments Rain
You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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Heart Wild Yourself
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
I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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Country Prefer Simplicity Writing
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
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Greatness Happiness Music Myself Word Writing
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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Failure Flavor Inspirational Motivational Perspective Success
Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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Autumn Beginning Myself Season
It’s a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something down out of them.
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Life Paper Pieces Reach Tired
Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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Greatness Growth Patience Time
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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Act Bad Goodness Life Play Writing
Personally, I rather think that if you’re not creative you’ve got a problem on your hands. If you are creative you’ve got a double problem.
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Creativity Double Hands Personal Problem Thinking Yourself

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