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“Call it precious and go to hell, but I believe a story can be wrecked by a faulty rhythm in a sentence-especially if it occurs toward the end- or a mistake in paragraphing, even punctuation. Henry James is the maestro of the semicolon. Hemingway is a first-rate paragrapher. From the point of view of  ear, Virginia Woolf never wrote a bad sentence. I don’t mean to imply that I successfully practice what I preach. I try, that’s all.” -Truman Capote

“Call it precious and go to hell, but I believe a story can be wrecked by a faulty rhythm in a sentence-especially if it occurs toward the end- or a mistake in paragraphing, even punctuation. Henry James is the maestro of the semicolon. Hemingway is a first-rate paragrapher. From the point of view of  ear, Virginia Woolf never wrote a bad sentence. I don’t mean to imply that I successfully practice what I preach. I try, that’s all.”

-Truman Capote

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    Have you ever read his first novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms? I highly recommend it- Old South at its finest.
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    How much I love the edges of his sleeves.
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    I try, that’s all.
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    Word, Capote. Word.
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    compulsive talker who writes while lying down. Harper Lee’s good friend. wanna read his In Cold Blood. classic.
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    This is why y’all you need to learn the difference between “its” and “it’s”…