Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThe quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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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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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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Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
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How do I look so young? Quite simple: a complete vegetable diet, 12 hours sleep a night, and lots and lots of make-up.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman, because he’ll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel.
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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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It’s a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something down out of them.
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They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the world: where then could we look for reassurance of our identities?
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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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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