Good writing is rewriting.
TRUMAN CAPOTEI just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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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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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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Past certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder; it is best done when one is a child; after that, and if you are lucky, you will find a bridge of childhood and walk across it.
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That’s why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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