Truman Capote on feeling
Truman Capote67 quotes“Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.”
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
Truman CapoteTruman Capote The wind is us– it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.
Truman CapoteTruman Capote 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.
Truman CapoteTruman Capote 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.
Truman CapoteTruman Capote Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
Truman CapoteTruman Capote Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can’t have too many friends because then you’re just not really friends.
Truman CapoteTruman Capote 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.
Truman CapoteTruman Capote It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
Truman CapoteTruman Capote To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
Truman CapoteTruman Capote It’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
Truman CapoteTruman Capote How do I look so young? Quite simple: a complete vegetable diet, 12 hours sleep a night, and lots and lots of make-up.
Truman CapoteTruman Capote Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
Truman CapoteTruman Capote The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
Truman CapoteTruman Capote 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.
Truman CapoteTruman Capote 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.
Truman CapoteTruman Capote I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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