A boy has to peddle his book.
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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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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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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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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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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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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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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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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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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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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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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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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Good writing is rewriting.
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