Good writing is rewriting.
TRUMAN CAPOTEIt may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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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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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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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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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That’s why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
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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 may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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