Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
TRUMAN CAPOTEWriting 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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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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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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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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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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I remember things the way they should have been.
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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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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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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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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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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love, having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface.
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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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