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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.

Truman Capote

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
How do I look so young? Quite simple: a complete vegetable diet, 12 hours sleep a night, and lots and lots of make-up.
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Appearance Make Up Myself Night Quite Simplicity Young
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
You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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Blame Character Talk Writing
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 prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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Country Prefer Simplicity Writing
Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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Book Breathe Goodness Hard Myself Thinking
A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
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Art Magic Mathematics Mystery Science Work
There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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Cruelty Forgiveness Mistake Sin
Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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Confidence Yourself
Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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Anxiety Mental Myself
It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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Jealous Love Person
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
Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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Friendship Important Myself Relationship 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
There were hints of sunrise on the rim of the sky, yet it was still dark, and the traces of morning color were like goldfish swimming in ink.
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.

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