To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThe quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love, having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface.
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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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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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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Good luck and believe me, dearest Doc – it’s better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear.
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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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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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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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The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman, because he’ll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel.
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