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.
TRUMAN CAPOTEWe all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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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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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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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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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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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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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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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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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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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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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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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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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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