I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
TRUMAN CAPOTEReading 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.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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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 man who doesn’t dream is like a man who doesn’t sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.
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Good writing is rewriting.
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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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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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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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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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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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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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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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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