Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
TRUMAN CAPOTEMost people who become suddenly famous overnight will find that they lose practically eighty percent of their friends. Your old friends just can’t stand it for some reason.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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It’s a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something down out of them.
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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 seldom meet.
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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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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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I always write the end of everything first. I always write the last chapters of my books before I write the beginning. Then I go back to the beginning. I mean, it’s always nice to know where you’re going is my theory.
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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Good writing is rewriting.
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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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