And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
TRUMAN CAPOTEImagination, 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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A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
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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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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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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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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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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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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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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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The good thing about masturbation is that you don’t have to get dressed up for it.
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It’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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Good luck and believe me, dearest Doc – it’s better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear.
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