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.
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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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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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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A man who doesn’t dream is like a man who doesn’t sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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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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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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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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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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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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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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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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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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Past certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder; it is best done when one is a child; after that, and if you are lucky, you will find a bridge of childhood and walk across it.
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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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Good writing is rewriting.
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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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