I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThe quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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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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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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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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A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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Yes: but aren’t love and marriage notoriously synonymous in the minds of most women? Certainly very few men get the first without promising the second: love, that is–if it’s just a matter of spreading her legs, almost any woman will do that for nothing.
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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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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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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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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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I can see every monster as they come 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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