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I remember things the way they should have been.

Truman Capote

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.
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Beginning Book End Myself Theory Writing
In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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Bloom Break Flower Garden Nature Voice Yourself
You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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Blame Character Talk Writing
Good writing is rewriting.
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Goodness One Liner Writing
Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
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Deep Existence Future Man Past Philosophy Wisdom Yourself
And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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Breathe Moments Rain
The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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Actor Better Himself Stupidity
It’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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Funny Intelligence Lose Science Stay Yourself
It’s a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something down out of them.
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Life Paper Pieces Reach Tired
It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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Choice Myself Natural Normal Ordinary
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
You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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Heart Wild Yourself
Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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Greatness Growth Patience Time
The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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Law Live Problem Protection
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
Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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Book Breathe Goodness Hard Myself Thinking
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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Bond Friendship Job Time Yourself
It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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Better Deep Live Sky
The good thing about masturbation is that you don’t have to get dressed up for it.
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Appearance Clothes Funny Goodness Sex 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
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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Evidence Feeling Present Privilege
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
Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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Life Love Nature Science
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
There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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Cruelty Forgiveness Mistake Sin
There were hints of sunrise on the rim of the sky, yet it was still dark, and the traces of morning color were like goldfish swimming in ink.
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Darkness Gold Morning Nature Rise Sky Sun
The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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Advice Brain Heart

I remember things the way they should have been.

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