Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
TRUMAN CAPOTEIt may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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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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A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That’s why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
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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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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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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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It’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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Good writing is rewriting.
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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