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?
TRUMAN CAPOTEWriting 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.
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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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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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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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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Good writing is rewriting.
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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I can see every monster as they come in.
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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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Most people who become suddenly famous overnight will find that they lose practically eighty percent of their friends. Your old friends just can’t stand it for some reason.
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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