Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThe good thing about masturbation is that you don’t have to get dressed up for it.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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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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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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I can see every monster as they come in.
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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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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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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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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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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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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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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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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
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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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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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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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