It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
TRUMAN CAPOTETo me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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The good thing about masturbation is that you don’t have to get dressed up for it.
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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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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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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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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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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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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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It’s a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something down out of them.
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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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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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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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A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
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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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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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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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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can’t have too many friends because then you’re just not really friends.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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Good writing is rewriting.
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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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Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
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