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.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThe 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.
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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.
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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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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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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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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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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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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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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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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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