The wind is us– it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThe quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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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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It’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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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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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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The good thing about masturbation is that you don’t have to get dressed up for it.
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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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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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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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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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Good writing is rewriting.
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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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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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