It’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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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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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Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down.
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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Everybody has to feel superior to somebody,” she said. “But it’s customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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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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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
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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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Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
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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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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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I remember things the way they should have been.
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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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