Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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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I remember things the way they should have been.
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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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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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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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It’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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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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Most people don’t find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don’t even know they have great talent.
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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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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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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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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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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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