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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.

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
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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Evidence Feeling Present Privilege
Good writing is rewriting.
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Goodness One Liner Writing
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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Act Bad Goodness Life Play Writing
Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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Feeling Home Myself
There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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Cruelty Forgiveness Mistake Sin
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
Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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Autumn Beginning Myself Season
The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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Actor Better Himself Stupidity
Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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Life Love Nature Science
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
The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman, because he’ll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel.
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Dangerous Friendship Funny Money Sleep World Yourself
It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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Better Deep Live Sky
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
Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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Book Breathe Goodness Hard Myself Thinking
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

Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.

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