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.
TRUMAN CAPOTEYou can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from which it’s going to be told.
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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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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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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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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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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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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.
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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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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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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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I remember things the way they should have been.
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Most people don’t find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don’t even know they have great talent.
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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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