Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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 man who doesn’t dream is like a man who doesn’t sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.
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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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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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How do I look so young? Quite simple: a complete vegetable diet, 12 hours sleep a night, and lots and lots of make-up.
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Past certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder; it is best done when one is a child; after that, and if you are lucky, you will find a bridge of childhood and walk across it.
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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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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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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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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can’t have too many friends because then you’re just not really friends.
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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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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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Good writing is rewriting.
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