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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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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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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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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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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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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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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How do I look so young? Quite simple: a complete vegetable diet, 12 hours sleep a night, and lots and lots of make-up.
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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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