The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
TRUMAN CAPOTEGood 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.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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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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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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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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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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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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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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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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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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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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