I remember things the way they should have been.
TRUMAN CAPOTEOne 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.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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The good thing about masturbation is that you don’t have to get dressed up for it.
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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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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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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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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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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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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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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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A boy has to peddle his book.
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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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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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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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