Reading dreams. That’s what started her walking down the road. Every day she’d walk a little further: a mile, and come home. Two miles, and come home. One day she just kept on.
TRUMAN CAPOTEAprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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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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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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A boy has to peddle his book.
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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.
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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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Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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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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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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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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Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
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