The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
TRUMAN CAPOTETo me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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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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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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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 a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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Good writing is rewriting.
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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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There were hints of sunrise on the rim of the sky, yet it was still dark, and the traces of morning color were like goldfish swimming in ink.
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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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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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Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
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