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.
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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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
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Good writing is rewriting.
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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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Most people don’t find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don’t even know they have great talent.
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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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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can’t have too many friends because then you’re just not really friends.
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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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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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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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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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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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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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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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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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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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Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
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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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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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