Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
TRUMAN CAPOTEIn my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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A man who doesn’t dream is like a man who doesn’t sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.
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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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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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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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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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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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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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Good writing is rewriting.
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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