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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.

Truman Capote

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
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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Destroy Identity Mirror Reaasuarnce Romantic Secret Torture
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
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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Leaving Remember Talk Voice Wind
I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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Country Prefer Simplicity Writing
I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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Future Myself Past Talk
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
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
I remember things the way they should have been.
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Imagination Myself Remember Way
I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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Believe Funny Myself Scissor
I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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Care Myself Opinion True
It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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Choice Myself Natural Normal Ordinary
The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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Law Live Problem Protection
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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Act Bad Goodness Life Play Writing

Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.

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