"Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe."
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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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"She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox. In this case, as opposed to the scrupulous method of good taste and scientific grooming, the trick had been worked by exaggerating defects; she'd made them ornamental by admitting them boldly."
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"Did you ever, in that wonderland wilderness of adolesence [sic] ever, quite unexpectedly, see something, a dusk sky, a wild bird, a landscape, so exquisite terror touched you at the bone? And you are afraid, terribly afraid the smallest movement, a leaf, say, turning in the wind, will shatter all? That is, I think, the way love is, or should be: one lives in beautiful terror."
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"Mick Jagger is about as sexy as a pissing toad."
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"You can’t give your heart to a wild thing."
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"My yardstick is how somebody treats me."
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"It's worth your life to order an omelette in most restaurants. You never know what you're going to get."
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"Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it."
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"Nancy Clutter is always in a hurry, but she always has time. And that's one definition of a lady."
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"We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why."
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"Actually, I think friendship and love are exactly the same thing."
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"I've never had an affair with somebody who wasn't at the same time a very good friend of mine, if you see what I mean."
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"[L]ove, having no geography, knows no boundaries."
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"The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection."
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"Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing."
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"The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply."
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"I can see every monster as they come in."
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"I am always drawn back to places where I have lived, the houses and their neighborhoods."
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"All literature is gossip."
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