A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThe better the actor, the more stupid he is.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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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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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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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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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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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
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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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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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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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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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Good writing is rewriting.
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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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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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