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

Truman Capote

Most people who become suddenly famous overnight will find that they lose practically eighty percent of their friends. Your old friends just can’t stand it for some reason.
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Famous Friendship Lose Night People Practice Reason Stand Yourself
Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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Greatness Growth Patience Time
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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Act Bad Goodness Life Play Writing
It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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Jealous Love Person
Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
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Book Children Shoot Yourself
Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
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Deep Existence Future Man Past Philosophy Wisdom Yourself
Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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Book Breathe Goodness Hard Myself Thinking
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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Life Paper Pieces Reach Tired
The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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Law Live Problem Protection
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
There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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Cruelty Forgiveness Mistake Sin
The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
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Enemy Himself Leaving
Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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Dead Live Lonely One Liner Philosophy Spiritual
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
A boy has to peddle his book.
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Book Boy Education
Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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Life Love Nature Science

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

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