Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
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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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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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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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How do I look so young? Quite simple: a complete vegetable diet, 12 hours sleep a night, and lots and lots of make-up.
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They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the world: where then could we look for reassurance of our identities?
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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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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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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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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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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