Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
TRUMAN CAPOTEReading 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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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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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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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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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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A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
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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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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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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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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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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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If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there’s no point in it….for me, every act of the art of solving a mystery.
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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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I remember things the way they should have been.
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