It’s a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something down out of them.
TRUMAN CAPOTEI just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
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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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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
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The wind is us– it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.
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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman, because he’ll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel.
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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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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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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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