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

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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
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
I remember things the way they should have been.
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Imagination Myself Remember Way
Good writing is rewriting.
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Goodness One Liner Writing
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
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
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
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
It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something
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Believe Death Deep End God
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
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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Act Bad Goodness Life Play Writing
I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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Care Myself Opinion True
Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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Greatness Growth Patience Time
It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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Choice Myself Natural Normal Ordinary
There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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Cruelty Forgiveness Mistake Sin
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

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

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