"Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act."
-Truman Capote
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"To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make."
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"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."
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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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"Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go."
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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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"It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second."
-John Steinbeck
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"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."
-Henry David Thoreau
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"The path to success is to take massive, determined action."
-Tony Robbins
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"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
-Winston Churchill
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"The starting point of all achievement is desire."
-Napoleon Hill
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"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
-Thomas A. Edison
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