You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
TRUMAN CAPOTEI thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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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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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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It’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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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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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
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Good writing is rewriting.
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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 can see every monster as they come in.
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