You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
TRUMAN CAPOTEI believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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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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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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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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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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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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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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There were hints of sunrise on the rim of the sky, yet it was still dark, and the traces of morning color were like goldfish swimming in ink.
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There is nobody in the world that you can’t get if you really concentrate on it, if you really want them. You’ve got to want it to the exclusion of everything else.
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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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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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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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