The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
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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Past certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder; it is best done when one is a child; after that, and if you are lucky, you will find a bridge of childhood and walk across it.
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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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I remember things the way they should have been.
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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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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There is nobody in the world that you can’t get if you really concentrate on it, if you really want them. You’ve got to want it to the exclusion of everything else.
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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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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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Good luck and believe me, dearest Doc – it’s better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear.
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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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The wind is us– it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.
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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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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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