Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
TRUMAN CAPOTEA conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That’s why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman, because he’ll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel.
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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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It’s a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something down out of them.
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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Good writing is rewriting.
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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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It’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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Everybody has to feel superior to somebody,” she said. “But it’s customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.
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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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