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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

Truman Capote

It’s a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something down out of them.
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Life Paper Pieces Reach Tired
Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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Friendship Important Myself Relationship Thinking
Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
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Deep Existence Future Man Past Philosophy Wisdom Yourself
The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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Advice Brain Heart
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
Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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Anxiety Mental Myself
Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
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Book Children Shoot Yourself
It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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Choice Myself Natural Normal Ordinary
Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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Greatness Growth Patience Time
Past certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder; it is best done when one is a child; after that, and if you are lucky, you will find a bridge of childhood and walk across it.
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Age Children Difficult Luck Past Wisdom Yourself
Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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Confidence Yourself
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
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Greatness Happiness Music Myself Word Writing
Good luck and believe me, dearest Doc – it’s better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear.
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Believe Better Country Disappearance Goodness Live Luck
The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love, having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface.
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Advice Boundary Brain Heart Love Rise Surface Weight
A boy has to peddle his book.
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Book Boy Education
I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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Country Prefer Simplicity Writing

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

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