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.
TRUMAN CAPOTEGood 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.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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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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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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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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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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There were hints of sunrise on the rim of the sky, yet it was still dark, and the traces of morning color were like goldfish swimming in ink.
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I always write the end of everything first. I always write the last chapters of my books before I write the beginning. Then I go back to the beginning. I mean, it’s always nice to know where you’re going is my theory.
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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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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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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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