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.
TRUMAN CAPOTEYes: 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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A boy has to peddle his book.
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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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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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Past certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder; it is best done when one is a child; after that, and if you are lucky, you will find a bridge of childhood and walk across it.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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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’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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Most people don’t find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don’t even know they have great talent.
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Everybody has to feel superior to somebody,” she said. “But it’s customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.
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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
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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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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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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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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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The good thing about masturbation is that you don’t have to get dressed up for it.
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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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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.
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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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