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.
TRUMAN CAPOTEFailure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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’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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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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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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Everybody has to feel superior to somebody,” she said. “But it’s customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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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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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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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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A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
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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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