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I can see every monster as they come in.

Truman Capote

Reading dreams. That’s what started her walking down the road. Every day she’d walk a little further: a mile, and come home. Two miles, and come home. One day she just kept on.
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Dreams Herself Home Oneself Reading Road Start Walk
I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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Believe Funny Myself Scissor
I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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Future Myself Past Talk
I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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Country Prefer Simplicity Writing
There 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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Darkness Gold Morning Nature Rise Sky Sun
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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Failure Flavor Inspirational Motivational Perspective Success
A boy has to peddle his book.
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Book Boy Education
I always write the end of everything first. I always write the last chapters of my books before I write the beginning. Then I go back to the beginning. I mean, it’s always nice to know where you’re going is my theory.
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Beginning Book End Myself Theory Writing
A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
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Art Magic Mathematics Mystery Science Work
And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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Breathe Moments Rain
Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down.
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Bad Difference Fun Goodness Myself Stop True Writing
Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
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Listening Secret Trouble
One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from which it’s going to be told.
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Difficult Myself Novel View Writing
It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something
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Believe Death Deep End God
There is nobody in the world that you can’t get if you really concentrate on it, if you really want them. You’ve got to want it to the exclusion of everything else.
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Concentration Focus World Yourself
I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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Day Life Live Myself Theory Time

I can see every monster as they come in.

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