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Truman Capote

"All children are morbid: it's their one saving grace."

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"All children are morbid: it's their one saving grace."

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"A child has an ingrained fancy for coal, not for the gross materialistic reason that it builds up fires by which we cook and are warmed, but for the infinitely nobler and more abstract reason that it blacks his fingers."

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"Hat's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them."

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"Not having yet passed through those bitter experiences which enforce upon older years circumspection and coldness, I deprived myself of the pure delight of a fresh, childish instinct for the absurd purpose of trying to resemble grown-up people."

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"The great cathedral space which was childhood."

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"Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again."

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"Children harbor a great many doubts and sorrows that could be eased by a loving hug from a parent."

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"Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time he is not two men but one and he has saved not only his soul but his life."

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"Children can create fun out of nothing and when this great talent is lost you become a boring creature which is called adult!"

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"One day, you will be old enough to start reading fairytales again."

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"A boy is of all wild beasts the most difficult to manage."

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"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."
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"I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true."
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"Imagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in."
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"Any love is natural and beautiful that lies within a person's nature; only hypocrites would hold a man responsible for what he loves, emotional illiterates and those of righteous envy, who, in their agitated concern, mistake so frequently the arrow pointing to heaven for the one that leads to hell."
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"You can't give your heart to a wild thing."
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"Royal summoned mourners. They came from the village, from the neighboring hills and, wailing like dogs at midnight, laid siege to the house. Old women beat their heads against the walls, moaning men prostrated themselves: it was the art of sorrow, and those who best mimicked grief were much admired. After the funeral everyone went away, satisfied that they'd done a good job."
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"That's not writing that's typing."
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"Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy."
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