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A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.

Truman Capote

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
Good writing is rewriting.
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Goodness One Liner Writing
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
Most people who become suddenly famous overnight will find that they lose practically eighty percent of their friends. Your old friends just can’t stand it for some reason.
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Famous Friendship Lose Night People Practice Reason Stand Yourself
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.
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Concentration Focus World Yourself
Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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Greatness Growth Patience Time
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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Failure Flavor Inspirational Motivational Perspective Success
I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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Future Myself Past Talk
It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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Better Deep Live Sky
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
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
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
The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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Law Live Problem Protection
Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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Friendship Important Myself Relationship Thinking
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
The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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Actor Better Himself Stupidity

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