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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There is nobody in the world that you can’t get if you really concentrate on it, if you really want them. You’ve got to want it to the exclusion of everything else.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman, because he’ll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel.
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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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.
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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A man who doesn’t dream is like a man who doesn’t sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down.
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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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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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There were hints of sunrise on the rim of the sky, yet it was still dark, and the traces of morning color were like goldfish swimming in ink.
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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