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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.

Truman Capote

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 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
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
Most people don’t find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don’t even know they have great talent.
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Creativity Genius Greatness People Talent
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
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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Act Bad Goodness Life Play Writing
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
The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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Quiet Reply Voice
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
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.
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Difficult Myself Novel View Writing
Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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Anxiety Mental Myself
A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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Friendship Important Myself Relationship Thinking
You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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Heart Wild Yourself
I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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Believe Funny Myself Scissor

It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.

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