There is nobody in the world that you can’t get if you really concentrate on it, if you really want them. You’ve got to want it to the exclusion of everything else.
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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A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
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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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Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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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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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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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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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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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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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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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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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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How do I look so young? Quite simple: a complete vegetable diet, 12 hours sleep a night, and lots and lots of make-up.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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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.
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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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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
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Good luck and believe me, dearest Doc – it’s better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear.
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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
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