Use the quotes below to spur your writing into a direction by either
finding an image or idea in the quotes to encourage your writing, or
write about something the quote reminds you.
"...for so few of us
learn that love is tenderness, and tenderness is not, as a fair
proportion suspect, pity; and still fewer know that happiness in love is
not the absolute focusing of all emotion in another: one has always to
love a good many things which the beloved must come only to symbolize;
the true beloveds of this world are in their lover's eyes lilac
openings, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered
conversations, friends, a child's Sunday, lost voices, one's favorite
suit, autumn and all the seasons, memory, yes, it being earth and water
of existence, memory."
p. 141-142, Other Voices, Other Rooms. Truman Capote
"...there
was always between us something muted, hushed; still our silence was
not of a secret kind, for in itself it communicated that wonderful peace
those who understand each other very well sometimes achieve..."
p. 143, Other Voices, Other Rooms. Truman Capote
"...this
was not a hotel; indeed, had never been: this was the place where folks
came when they went off the face of the earth, when they died but were
not dead."
p. 118, Other Voices, Other Rooms. Truman Capote
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