Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
TRUMAN CAPOTEHow do I look so young? Quite simple: a complete vegetable diet, 12 hours sleep a night, and lots and lots of make-up.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
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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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A boy has to peddle his book.
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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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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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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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Good writing is rewriting.
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Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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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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The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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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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