A man who doesn’t dream is like a man who doesn’t sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThere were hints of sunrise on the rim of the sky, yet it was still dark, and the traces of morning color were like goldfish swimming in ink.
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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman, because he’ll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel.
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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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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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Good writing is rewriting.
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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Yes: but aren’t love and marriage notoriously synonymous in the minds of most women? Certainly very few men get the first without promising the second: love, that is–if it’s just a matter of spreading her legs, almost any woman will do that for nothing.
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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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It’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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