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Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.

Truman Capote

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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Conversation Goodness Intelligence Scarcity Talk
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
It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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Choice Myself Natural Normal Ordinary
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
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
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
The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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Law Live Problem Protection
The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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Actor Better Himself Stupidity
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
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
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
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
Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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Friendship Important Myself Relationship Thinking
Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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Dead Live Lonely One Liner Philosophy Spiritual
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

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