I can see every monster as they come in.
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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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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Yes: but aren’t love and marriage notoriously synonymous in the minds of most women? Certainly very few men get the first without promising the second: love, that is–if it’s just a matter of spreading her legs, almost any woman will do that for nothing.
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Reading dreams. That’s what started her walking down the road. Every day she’d walk a little further: a mile, and come home. Two miles, and come home. One day she just kept on.
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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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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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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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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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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there’s no point in it….for me, every act of the art of solving a mystery.
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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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