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

Truman Capote

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
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Greatness Happiness Music Myself Word Writing
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 just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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Day Life Live Myself Theory Time
We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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Leaving Sky Time Understand
I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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Believe Funny Myself Scissor
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
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
The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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Quiet Reply Voice
In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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Bloom Break Flower Garden Nature Voice Yourself
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
You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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Heart Wild Yourself
It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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Jealous Love Person
Good writing is rewriting.
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Goodness One Liner Writing
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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Darkness Gold Morning Nature Rise Sky Sun
There is nobody in the world that you can’t get if you really concentrate on it, if you really want them. You’ve got to want it to the exclusion of everything else.
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Concentration Focus World Yourself
Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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Anxiety Mental Myself

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

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