Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can’t have too many friends because then you’re just not really friends.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThere is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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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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How do I look so young? Quite simple: a complete vegetable diet, 12 hours sleep a night, and lots and lots of make-up.
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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.
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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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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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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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Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
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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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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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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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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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Good writing is rewriting.
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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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A man who doesn’t dream is like a man who doesn’t sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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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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They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the world: where then could we look for reassurance of our identities?
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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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The wind is us– it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.
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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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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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