A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
TRUMAN CAPOTEIf there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there’s no point in it….for me, every act of the art of solving a mystery.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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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 scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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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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There were hints of sunrise on the rim of the sky, yet it was still dark, and the traces of morning color were like goldfish swimming in ink.
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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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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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The good thing about masturbation is that you don’t have to get dressed up for it.
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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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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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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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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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