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.
TRUMAN CAPOTEWe all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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The good thing about masturbation is that you don’t have to get dressed up for it.
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I always write the end of everything first. I always write the last chapters of my books before I write the beginning. Then I go back to the beginning. I mean, it’s always nice to know where you’re going is my theory.
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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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 has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
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Yes: but aren’t love and marriage notoriously synonymous in the minds of most women? Certainly very few men get the first without promising the second: love, that is–if it’s just a matter of spreading her legs, almost any woman will do that for nothing.
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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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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 is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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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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