Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
TRUMAN CAPOTEYou can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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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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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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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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Most people who become suddenly famous overnight will find that they lose practically eighty percent of their friends. Your old friends just can’t stand it for some reason.
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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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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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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A man who doesn’t dream is like a man who doesn’t sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.
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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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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
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