I remember things the way they should have been.
TRUMAN CAPOTEIt’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.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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Good writing is rewriting.
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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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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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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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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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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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Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
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Reading 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.
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