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Most people don’t find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don’t even know they have great talent.

Truman Capote

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That’s why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
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Conversation Goodness Intelligence Scarcity Talk
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
I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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Care Myself Opinion True
The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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Law Live Problem Protection
I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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Believe Funny Myself Scissor
And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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Breathe Moments Rain
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 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
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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Legs Love Man Marriage Mindset Promise Sex Woman
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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Difficult Myself Novel View Writing
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
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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Act Bad Goodness Life Play Writing
Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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Confidence Yourself
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
The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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Actor Better Himself Stupidity
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

Most people don’t find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don’t even know they have great talent.

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