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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…
• Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
• 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…
• To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.
• Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
• Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
• I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.
• Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine.…
• Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.
• No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. It scraped me right down to the marrow of…
• Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
• Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town.

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