The wind is us– it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.
TRUMAN CAPOTEReading dreams. That’s what started her walking down the road. Every day she’d walk a little further: a mile, and come home. Two miles, and come home. One day she just kept on.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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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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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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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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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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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 the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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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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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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