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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 Capote

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
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Greatness Happiness Music Myself Word Writing
I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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Country Prefer Simplicity Writing
I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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Day Life Live Myself Theory Time
It’s a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something down out of them.
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Life Paper Pieces Reach Tired
Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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Confidence Yourself
Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
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Book Children Shoot Yourself
Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
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Deep Existence Future Man Past Philosophy Wisdom Yourself
I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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Care Myself Opinion True
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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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
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
Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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Dead Live Lonely One Liner Philosophy Spiritual
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
It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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Choice Myself Natural Normal Ordinary
The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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Quiet Reply Voice
Reading dreams. That’s what started her walking down the road. Every day she’d walk a little further: a mile, and come home. Two miles, and come home. One day she just kept on.
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Dreams Herself Home Oneself Reading Road Start Walk

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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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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