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It’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.

Truman Capote

Past certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder; it is best done when one is a child; after that, and if you are lucky, you will find a bridge of childhood and walk across it.
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Age Children Difficult Luck Past Wisdom Yourself
I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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Future Myself Past Talk
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
Reading dreams. That’s what started her walking down the road. Every day she’d walk a little further: a mile, and come home. Two miles, and come home. One day she just kept on.
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Dreams Herself Home Oneself Reading Road Start Walk
You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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Blame Character Talk Writing
The good thing about masturbation is that you don’t have to get dressed up for it.
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Appearance Clothes Funny Goodness Sex Yourself
It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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Better Deep Live Sky
I remember things the way they should have been.
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Imagination Myself Remember Way
It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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Choice Myself Natural Normal Ordinary
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
Good writing is rewriting.
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Goodness One Liner Writing
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
I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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Care Myself Opinion True
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
How do I look so young? Quite simple: a complete vegetable diet, 12 hours sleep a night, and lots and lots of make-up.
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Appearance Make Up Myself Night Quite Simplicity Young
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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