Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
TRUMAN CAPOTEA man who doesn’t dream is like a man who doesn’t sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.
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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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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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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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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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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Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down.
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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Reading dreams. That’s what started her walking down the road. Every day she’d walk a little further: a mile, and come home. Two miles, and come home. One day she just kept on.
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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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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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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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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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can’t have too many friends because then you’re just not really friends.
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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