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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.

Truman Capote

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
It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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Choice Myself Natural Normal Ordinary
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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Failure Flavor Inspirational Motivational Perspective Success
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
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
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
Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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Friendship Important Myself Relationship Thinking
The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
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Enemy Himself Leaving
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
Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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Anxiety Mental Myself
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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Act Bad Goodness Life Play Writing
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
Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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Feeling Home Myself
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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Beginning Book End Myself Theory 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
It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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Jealous Love Person
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
The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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Quiet Reply Voice
There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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Cruelty Forgiveness Mistake Sin
I remember things the way they should have been.
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Imagination Myself Remember Way
I can see every monster as they come in.
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Monster Myself See
The good thing about masturbation is that you don’t have to get dressed up for it.
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Appearance Clothes Funny Goodness Sex Yourself
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
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
Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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Confidence 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
I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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Future Myself Past Talk

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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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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