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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.

Truman Capote

There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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Cruelty Forgiveness Mistake Sin
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
They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the world: where then could we look for reassurance of our identities?
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Destroy Identity Mirror Reaasuarnce Romantic Secret Torture
It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something
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Believe Death Deep End God
I can see every monster as they come in.
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Monster Myself See
I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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Care Myself Opinion True
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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Born Law Learning Music Painting Perspective Writing Yourself
It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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Choice Myself Natural Normal Ordinary
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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Legs Love Man Marriage Mindset Promise Sex Woman
The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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Advice Brain Heart
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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Failure Flavor Inspirational Motivational Perspective Success
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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Darkness Gold Morning Nature Rise Sky Sun
A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That’s why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
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Conversation Goodness Intelligence Scarcity Talk
You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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Heart Wild Yourself
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
Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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Book Breathe Goodness Hard Myself Thinking

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