Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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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Good writing is rewriting.
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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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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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I can see every monster as they come in.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down.
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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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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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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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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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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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