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“Just remember: If one bird carried every grain of sand, grain by grain, across the ocean, by the time he got them all on the other side, that would only be the beginning of eternity.”

— Truman Capote In Cold Blood (1965)

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It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

Truman Capote: Conversations (1987)

More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.

Never trust a nigger: their minds and hair are full of kinks in equal measure.

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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