Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThe enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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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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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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I can see every monster as they come in.
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It’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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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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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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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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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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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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