The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
TRUMAN CAPOTEIt’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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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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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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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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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That’s why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
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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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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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Past certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder; it is best done when one is a child; after that, and if you are lucky, you will find a bridge of childhood and walk across it.
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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