Good writing is rewriting.
TRUMAN CAPOTEHave you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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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 just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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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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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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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’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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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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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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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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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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