Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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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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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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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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 man who doesn’t dream is like a man who doesn’t sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.
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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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Good writing is rewriting.
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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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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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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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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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