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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

And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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Breathe Moments Rain
Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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Greatness Growth Patience Time
Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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Confidence Yourself
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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Bond Friendship Job Time Yourself
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
There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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Cruelty Forgiveness Mistake Sin
Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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Dead Live Lonely One Liner Philosophy Spiritual
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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Life Paper Pieces Reach Tired
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
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
It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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Better Deep Live Sky
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
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
Good writing is rewriting.
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Goodness One Liner Writing
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 believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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Believe Funny Myself Scissor

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

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