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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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
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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Concentration Focus World Yourself
The wind is us– it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.
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Leaving Remember Talk Voice Wind
I remember things the way they should have been.
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Imagination Myself Remember Way
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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Failure Flavor Inspirational Motivational Perspective Success
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 just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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Day Life Live Myself Theory Time
A boy has to peddle his book.
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Book Boy Education
You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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Heart Wild Yourself
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
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
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
Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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Feeling Home Myself
It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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Jealous Love Person
Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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Autumn Beginning Myself Season
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

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

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