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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

The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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Quiet Reply Voice
I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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Believe Funny Myself Scissor
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
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
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
I can see every monster as they come in.
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Monster Myself See
Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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Feeling Home Myself
Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
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Deep Existence Future Man Past Philosophy Wisdom Yourself
Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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Imagination Key Open Terrorism Walk
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
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
You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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Heart Wild Yourself
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
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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Dreams Herself Home Oneself Reading Road Start Walk
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
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
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
Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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Dead Live Lonely One Liner Philosophy Spiritual
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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Act Bad Goodness Life Play Writing
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
I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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Country Prefer Simplicity Writing
One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from which it’s going to be told.
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Difficult Myself Novel View Writing
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
Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
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Listening Secret Trouble
Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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Anxiety Mental Myself
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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Conversation Goodness Intelligence Scarcity Talk
The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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Advice Brain Heart

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

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