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

Truman Capote

A man who doesn’t dream is like a man who doesn’t sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.
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Dreams Man Poison Store
I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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Future Myself Past Talk
Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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Feeling Home Myself
The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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Actor Better Himself Stupidity
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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Act Bad Goodness Life Play Writing
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
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
A boy has to peddle his book.
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Book Boy Education
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
One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from which it’s going to be told.
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Difficult Myself Novel View Writing
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
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
It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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Jealous Love Person
We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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Leaving Sky Time Understand
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
Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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Autumn Beginning Myself Season

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

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