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

Truman Capote

I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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Country Prefer Simplicity Writing
The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love, having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface.
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Advice Boundary Brain Heart Love Rise Surface Weight
The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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Actor Better Himself Stupidity
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
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
And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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Breathe Moments Rain
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
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
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
I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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Believe Funny Myself Scissor
Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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Confidence Yourself
Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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Imagination Key Open Terrorism Walk
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
Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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Friendship Important Myself Relationship 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
Good writing is rewriting.
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Goodness One Liner Writing

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

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