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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.

Truman Capote

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
Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can’t have too many friends because then you’re just not really friends.
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Bond Friendship Job Time Yourself
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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Legs Love Man Marriage Mindset Promise Sex Woman
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 is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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Cruelty Forgiveness Mistake Sin
You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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Heart Wild Yourself
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
A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
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Art Magic Mathematics Mystery Science Work
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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Failure Flavor Inspirational Motivational Perspective Success
And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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Breathe Moments Rain
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
It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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Better Deep Live Sky
Good writing is rewriting.
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Goodness One Liner Writing
I can see every monster as they come in.
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Monster Myself See
I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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Believe Funny Myself Scissor
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

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