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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.

Truman Capote

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, 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
Good writing is rewriting.
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Goodness One Liner Writing
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
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
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
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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Believe Death Deep End God
I remember things the way they should have been.
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Imagination Myself Remember Way
The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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Law Live Problem Protection
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
Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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Feeling Home Myself
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
I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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Country Prefer Simplicity Writing
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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Famous Friendship Lose Night People Practice Reason Stand Yourself
There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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Cruelty Forgiveness Mistake Sin
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

The brain may take advice, but not the heart.

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