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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.

Truman Capote

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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Age Children Difficult Luck Past Wisdom 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
Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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Feeling Home Myself
I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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Country Prefer Simplicity Writing
I remember things the way they should have been.
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Imagination Myself Remember Way
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
Personally, I rather think that if you’re not creative you’ve got a problem on your hands. If you are creative you’ve got a double problem.
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Creativity Double Hands Personal Problem Thinking Yourself
You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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Blame Character Talk Writing
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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Dangerous Friendship Funny Money Sleep World Yourself
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
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
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
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.
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Bad Difference Fun Goodness Myself Stop True Writing
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
Good writing is rewriting.
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Goodness One Liner Writing
Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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Confidence Yourself

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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