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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.

Truman Capote

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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Dreams Man Poison Store
A boy has to peddle his book.
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Book Boy Education
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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Act Bad Goodness Life Play Writing
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
Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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Feeling Home Myself
I remember things the way they should have been.
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Imagination Myself Remember Way
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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Legs Love Man Marriage Mindset Promise Sex Woman
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
And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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Breathe Moments Rain
Good writing is rewriting.
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Goodness One Liner Writing
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
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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Difficult Myself Novel View Writing
I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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Believe Funny Myself Scissor
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 prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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Country Prefer Simplicity Writing
You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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Blame Character Talk Writing

Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.

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