We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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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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One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from which it’s going to be told.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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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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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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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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Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
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If 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.
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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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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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It’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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