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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.

Truman Capote

We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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Leaving Sky Time Understand
I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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Care Myself Opinion True
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
I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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Believe Funny Myself Scissor
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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Darkness Gold Morning Nature Rise Sky Sun
It’s a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something down out of them.
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Life Paper Pieces Reach Tired
Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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Dead Live Lonely One Liner Philosophy Spiritual
The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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Actor Better Himself Stupidity
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
Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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Life Love Nature Science
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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Act Bad Goodness Life Play Writing
There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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Cruelty Forgiveness Mistake Sin
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 boy has to peddle his book.
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Book Boy Education
Reading dreams. That’s what started her walking down the road. Every day she’d walk a little further: a mile, and come home. Two miles, and come home. One day she just kept on.
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Dreams Herself Home Oneself Reading Road Start Walk

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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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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