Good writing is rewriting.
TRUMAN CAPOTEYou can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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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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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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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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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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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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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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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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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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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something
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I can see every monster as they come in.
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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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Personally, I rather think that if you’re not creative you’ve got a problem on your hands. If you are creative you’ve got a double problem.
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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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