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.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThe good thing about masturbation is that you don’t have to get dressed up for it.
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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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The good thing about masturbation is that you don’t have to get dressed up for it.
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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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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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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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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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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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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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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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Everybody has to feel superior to somebody,” she said. “But it’s customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.
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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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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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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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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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