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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.

Truman Capote

It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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Better Deep Live Sky
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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Dreams Herself Home Oneself Reading Road Start Walk
The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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Advice Brain Heart
Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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Greatness Growth Patience Time
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
I remember things the way they should have been.
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Imagination Myself Remember Way
Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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Friendship Important Myself Relationship Thinking
I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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Believe Funny Myself Scissor
Good writing is rewriting.
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Goodness One Liner Writing
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
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
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Greatness Happiness Music Myself Word Writing
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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Act Bad Goodness Life Play Writing
In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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Bloom Break Flower Garden Nature Voice Yourself
Everybody has to feel superior to somebody,” she said. “But it’s customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.
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Evidence Feeling Present Privilege
Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
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Book Children Shoot 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 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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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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