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.
TRUMAN CAPOTEGood 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.
TRUMAN CAPOTEPast 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.
TRUMAN CAPOTEI believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThe good thing about masturbation is that you don’t have to get dressed up for it.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThe enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
TRUMAN CAPOTEEverybody has to feel superior to somebody,” she said. “But it’s customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.
TRUMAN CAPOTEAnyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
TRUMAN CAPOTEFailure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThere is nobody in the world that you can’t get if you really concentrate on it, if you really want them. You’ve got to want it to the exclusion of everything else.
TRUMAN CAPOTEWriting 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.
TRUMAN CAPOTEA man who doesn’t dream is like a man who doesn’t sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.
TRUMAN CAPOTEAnticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
TRUMAN CAPOTEGood writing is rewriting.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThey 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?
TRUMAN CAPOTEMost people don’t find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don’t even know they have great talent.
TRUMAN CAPOTEPersonally, I rather think that if you’re not creative you’ve got a problem on your hands. If you are creative you’ve got a double problem.
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