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.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThe better the actor, the more stupid he is.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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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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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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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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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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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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One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from which it’s going to be told.
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It’s a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something down out of them.
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It’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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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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