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.
TRUMAN CAPOTEMost 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.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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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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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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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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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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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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Personally, I rather think that if you’re not creative you’ve got a problem on your hands. If you are creative you’ve got a double problem.
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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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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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Everybody has to feel superior to somebody,” she said. “But it’s customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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Good writing is rewriting.
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