Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThey 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?
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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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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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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Good writing is rewriting.
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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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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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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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I always write the end of everything first. I always write the last chapters of my books before I write the beginning. Then I go back to the beginning. I mean, it’s always nice to know where you’re going is my theory.
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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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I can see every monster as they come in.
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A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
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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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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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