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"First, a gorgeous breakfast: just everything you can imagine from flapjacks and fried squirrel to hominy grits and honey in the comb...we're so impatient to get at the presents we can't eat a mouthful."
"I want to still be me when I wake up one fine morning and have breakfast at Tiffany´s."
"Champagne does have one regular drawback: swilled as a regular thing a certain sourness settles in the tummy, and the result is permanent bad breath. Really incurable."
"It’s better to look at the sky than live there"
"And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came."
"Imagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in."
"Everybody has to feel superior to somebody," she said. "But it's customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege."
"I'll never get used to anything. Anybody that does they might as well be dead."
"It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something"
"He loved her, he loved her, and until he'd loved her she had never minded being alone."
"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."
"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."
"...of all things this was the saddest, that life goes on: if one leaves one's lover, life should stop for him, and if one disappears from the world, then the world should stop, too: and it never did. And that was the real reason for most people getting up in the morning: not because it would matter but because it wouldn't."
"Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring."
"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."
"Before birth; yes, what time was it then? A time like now, and when they were dead, it would be still like now: these trees, that sky, this earth, those acorn seeds, sun and wind, all the same, while they, with dust-turned hearts, change only."
"Just remember: If one bird carried every grain of sand, grain by grain, across the ocean, by the time he got them all on the other side, that would only be the beginning of eternity."
"I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about."
"When seriously explored, the short story seems to me the most difficult and disciplining form of prose writing extant. Whatever control and technique I may have I owe entirely to my training in this medium."
"That's not writing, that's typing"