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Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.

Truman Capote

You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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Blame Character Talk Writing
I remember things the way they should have been.
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Imagination Myself Remember Way
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
Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
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Listening Secret Trouble
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
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
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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Art Artist Myself Mystery
Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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Greatness Growth Patience Time
Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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Feeling Home Myself
The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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Advice Brain Heart
A boy has to peddle his book.
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Book Boy Education
I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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Care Myself Opinion True
Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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Book Breathe Goodness Hard Myself Thinking
Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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Friendship Important Myself Relationship Thinking
Good luck and believe me, dearest Doc – it’s better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear.
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Believe Better Country Disappearance Goodness Live Luck
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

Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.

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