Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
TRUMAN CAPOTEEverybody has to feel superior to somebody,” she said. “But it’s customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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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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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something
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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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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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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 a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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There is nobody in the world that you can’t get if you really concentrate on it, if you really want them. You’ve got to want it to the exclusion of everything else.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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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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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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