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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

Truman Capote

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
A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That’s why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
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Conversation Goodness Intelligence Scarcity Talk
Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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Dead Live Lonely One Liner Philosophy Spiritual
You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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Blame Character Talk Writing
Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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Imagination Key Open Terrorism Walk
Good writing is rewriting.
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Goodness One Liner Writing
A boy has to peddle his book.
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Book Boy Education
The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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Actor Better Himself Stupidity
Personally, I rather think that if you’re not creative you’ve got a problem on your hands. If you are creative you’ve got a double problem.
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Creativity Double Hands Personal Problem Thinking Yourself
The wind is us– it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.
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Leaving Remember Talk Voice Wind
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
I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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Country Prefer Simplicity Writing
I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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Day Life Live Myself Theory Time
Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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Autumn Beginning Myself Season
The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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Law Live Problem Protection
You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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Heart Wild Yourself

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

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