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

Truman Capote

It’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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Funny Intelligence Lose Science Stay 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
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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Believe Death Deep End God
Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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Anxiety Mental Myself
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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Art Artist Myself Mystery
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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Born Law Learning Music Painting Perspective Writing Yourself
Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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Dead Live Lonely One Liner Philosophy Spiritual
The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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Actor Better Himself Stupidity
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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Destroy Identity Mirror Reaasuarnce Romantic Secret Torture
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
Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
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Listening Secret Trouble
And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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Breathe Moments Rain
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
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
I remember things the way they should have been.
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Imagination Myself Remember Way
The good thing about masturbation is that you don’t have to get dressed up for it.
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Appearance Clothes Funny Goodness Sex Yourself
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
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
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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Advice Boundary Brain Heart Love Rise Surface Weight
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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Dreams Herself Home Oneself Reading Road Start Walk
You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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Heart Wild Yourself
I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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Country Prefer Simplicity Writing
You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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Blame Character Talk Writing
Good writing is rewriting.
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Goodness One Liner Writing
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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Act Bad Goodness Life Play Writing
The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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Advice Brain Heart

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

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