The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThe 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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There is nobody in the world that you can’t get if you really concentrate on it, if you really want them. You’ve got to want it to the exclusion of everything else.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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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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It’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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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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A boy has to peddle his book.
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Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
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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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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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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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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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A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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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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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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