I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
TRUMAN CAPOTELife is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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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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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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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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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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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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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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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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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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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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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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Personally, I rather think that if you’re not creative you’ve got a problem on your hands. If you are creative you’ve got a double problem.
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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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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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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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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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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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It’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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