A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
TRUMAN CAPOTEWe all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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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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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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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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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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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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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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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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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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Most people don’t find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don’t even know they have great talent.
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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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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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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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