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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.

Truman Capote

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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Act Bad Goodness Life Play Writing
I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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Country Prefer Simplicity Writing
It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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Better Deep Live Sky
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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Creativity Genius Greatness People Talent
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
I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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Future Myself Past Talk
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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Failure Flavor Inspirational Motivational Perspective Success
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
Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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Confidence 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
I remember things the way they should have been.
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Imagination Myself Remember Way
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
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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Believe Death Deep End God
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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Concentration Focus World 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
Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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Imagination Key Open Terrorism Walk
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
Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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Dead Live Lonely One Liner Philosophy Spiritual
You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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Heart Wild Yourself
You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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Blame Character Talk 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
The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love, having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface.
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Advice Boundary Brain Heart Love Rise Surface Weight
Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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Autumn Beginning Myself Season
Personally, I rather think that if you’re not creative you’ve got a problem on your hands. If you are creative you’ve got a double problem.
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Creativity Double Hands Personal Problem Thinking 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
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
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

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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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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