It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThere 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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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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Good writing is rewriting.
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love, having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface.
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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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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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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.
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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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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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The wind is us– it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.
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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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The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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