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The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman, because he’ll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel.

Truman Capote

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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Conversation Goodness Intelligence Scarcity Talk
You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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Blame Character Talk Writing
Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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Feeling Home 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
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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Born Law Learning Music Painting Perspective Writing Yourself
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
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
If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there’s no point in it….for me, every act of the art of solving a mystery.
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Art Artist Myself Mystery
Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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Greatness Growth Patience Time
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 don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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Care Myself Opinion True
I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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Future Myself Past Talk
I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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Believe Funny Myself Scissor
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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Appearance Make Up Myself Night Quite Simplicity Young
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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Failure Flavor Inspirational Motivational Perspective Success
The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
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Enemy Himself Leaving

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