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Everybody has to feel superior to somebody,” she said. “But it’s customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.

Truman Capote

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
Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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Life Love Nature Science
I can see every monster as they come in.
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Monster Myself See
Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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Confidence Yourself
A boy has to peddle his book.
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Book Boy Education
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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Bad Difference Fun Goodness Myself Stop True Writing
The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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Quiet Reply Voice
Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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Dead Live Lonely One Liner Philosophy Spiritual
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
I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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Country Prefer Simplicity Writing
There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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Cruelty Forgiveness Mistake Sin
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
And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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Breathe Moments Rain
Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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Book Breathe Goodness Hard Myself Thinking
Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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Anxiety Mental Myself
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

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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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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