Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
TRUMAN CAPOTEImagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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Most people who become suddenly famous overnight will find that they lose practically eighty percent of their friends. Your old friends just can’t stand it for some reason.
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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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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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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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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 problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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Yes: but aren’t love and marriage notoriously synonymous in the minds of most women? Certainly very few men get the first without promising the second: love, that is–if it’s just a matter of spreading her legs, almost any woman will do that for nothing.
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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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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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