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Music for Chameleons
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"Music for Chameleons" Quotes

"Music for Chameleons" is a collection of Truman Capote's vivid and intimate short stories and nonfiction pieces that explore the complexities of human nature and society.

Quotes

You lose your talent when you cease to be the person who earned it.

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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

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Memory is the diary we all carry about with us.

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

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You can't stop the future, you can't rewind the past. The only way to learn the secret... is to press play.

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It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

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A person doesn't know how much he has to be thankful for until he has to pay taxes on it.

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Life is a well of joy; but for those of us who find it so, life can also be a well of tears.

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Life is a beautiful and perpetual contradiction.

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It's better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes.

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