Good writing is rewriting.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThe quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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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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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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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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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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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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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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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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How do I look so young? Quite simple: a complete vegetable diet, 12 hours sleep a night, and lots and lots of make-up.
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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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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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