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.
TRUMAN CAPOTEImagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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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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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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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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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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The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love, having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface.
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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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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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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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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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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