Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
TRUMAN CAPOTEA work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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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 believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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Good writing is rewriting.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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Good luck and believe me, dearest Doc – it’s better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear.
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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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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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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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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