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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.

Truman Capote

It’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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Funny Intelligence Lose Science Stay Yourself
I can see every monster as they come in.
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Monster Myself See
I remember things the way they should have been.
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Imagination Myself Remember Way
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
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Greatness Happiness Music Myself Word Writing
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
It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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Better Deep Live Sky
I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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Country Prefer Simplicity Writing
Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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Anxiety Mental Myself
Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can’t have too many friends because then you’re just not really friends.
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Bond Friendship Job Time Yourself
It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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Choice Myself Natural Normal Ordinary
You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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Blame Character Talk 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
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
Most people who become suddenly famous overnight will find that they lose practically eighty percent of their friends. Your old friends just can’t stand it for some reason.
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Famous Friendship Lose Night People Practice Reason Stand Yourself
Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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Autumn Beginning Myself Season
Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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Life Love Nature Science

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