Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
TRUMAN CAPOTEI believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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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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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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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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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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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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