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The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.

Truman Capote

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
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
I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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Country Prefer Simplicity Writing
The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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Law Live Problem Protection
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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Bad Difference Fun Goodness Myself Stop True 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
And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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Breathe Moments Rain
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
You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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Heart Wild Yourself
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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Act Bad Goodness Life Play Writing
Good luck and believe me, dearest Doc – it’s better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear.
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Believe Better Country Disappearance Goodness Live Luck
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
Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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Confidence Yourself
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
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

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