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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

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
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
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
Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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Book Breathe Goodness Hard Myself Thinking
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
It’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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Funny Intelligence Lose Science Stay Yourself
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
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
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
You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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Heart Wild Yourself
There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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Cruelty Forgiveness Mistake Sin
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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Failure Flavor Inspirational Motivational Perspective Success
And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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Breathe Moments Rain
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
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
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
We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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Leaving Sky Time Understand
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
Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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Dead Live Lonely One Liner Philosophy Spiritual
It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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Better Deep Live Sky
You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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Blame Character Talk Writing
The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
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Enemy Himself Leaving
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
The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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Advice Brain Heart
Past certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder; it is best done when one is a child; after that, and if you are lucky, you will find a bridge of childhood and walk across it.
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Age Children Difficult Luck Past Wisdom Yourself
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
I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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Believe Funny Myself Scissor

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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