Good writing is rewriting.
TRUMAN CAPOTEFriendship 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.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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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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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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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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Good 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.
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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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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something
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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
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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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I can see every monster as they come in.
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