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One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from which it’s going to be told.

Truman Capote

It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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Choice Myself Natural Normal Ordinary
Everybody has to feel superior to somebody,” she said. “But it’s customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.
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Evidence Feeling Present Privilege
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
Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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Autumn Beginning Myself Season
A boy has to peddle his book.
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Book Boy Education
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
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
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
The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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Quiet Reply Voice
Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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Book Breathe Goodness Hard Myself Thinking
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
Good writing is rewriting.
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Goodness One Liner Writing
Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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Dead Live Lonely One Liner Philosophy Spiritual
It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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Jealous Love Person
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
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

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