Most people who become suddenly famous overnight will find that they lose practically eighty percent of their friends. Your old friends just can’t stand it for some reason.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThe quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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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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A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That’s why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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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 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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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
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