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 CAPOTEThere 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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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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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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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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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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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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I can see every monster as they come in.
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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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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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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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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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