I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
TRUMAN CAPOTEI just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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I can see every monster as they come in.
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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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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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
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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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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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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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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 boy has to peddle his book.
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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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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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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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love, having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface.
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