A man who doesn’t dream is like a man who doesn’t sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.
TRUMAN CAPOTEA work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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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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There were hints of sunrise on the rim of the sky, yet it was still dark, and the traces of morning color were like goldfish swimming in ink.
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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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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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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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Good writing is rewriting.
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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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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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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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.
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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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The good thing about masturbation is that you don’t have to get dressed up for it.
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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