It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something
TRUMAN CAPOTEHave you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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.
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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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Most people don’t find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don’t even know they have great talent.
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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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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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They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the world: where then could we look for reassurance of our identities?
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
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Past certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder; it is best done when one is a child; after that, and if you are lucky, you will find a bridge of childhood and walk across it.
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there’s no point in it….for me, every act of the art of solving a mystery.
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