To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
TRUMAN CAPOTEGreat fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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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.
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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.
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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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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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I can see every monster as they come in.
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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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The wind is us– it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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