A man who doesn’t dream is like a man who doesn’t sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.
TRUMAN CAPOTETo me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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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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Most people who become suddenly famous overnight will find that they lose practically eighty percent of their friends. Your old friends just can’t stand it for some reason.
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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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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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I can see every monster as they come in.
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Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
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If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there’s no point in it….for me, every act of the art of solving a mystery.
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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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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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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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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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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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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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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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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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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The good thing about masturbation is that you don’t have to get dressed up for it.
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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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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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