Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
TRUMAN CAPOTEI prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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There were hints of sunrise on the rim of the sky, yet it was still dark, and the traces of morning color were like goldfish swimming in ink.
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The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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I always write the end of everything first. I always write the last chapters of my books before I write the beginning. Then I go back to the beginning. I mean, it’s always nice to know where you’re going is my theory.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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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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A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
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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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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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I remember things the way they should have been.
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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman, because he’ll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel.
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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
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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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Good writing is rewriting.
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There is nobody in the world that you can’t get if you really concentrate on it, if you really want them. You’ve got to want it to the exclusion of everything else.
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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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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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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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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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