Most people don’t find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don’t even know they have great talent.
TRUMAN CAPOTEOne 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.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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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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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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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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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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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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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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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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I can see every monster as they come in.
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
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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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