I remember things the way they should have been.
TRUMAN CAPOTEIt’s better to look at the sky than live there.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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Personally, 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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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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If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there’s no point in it….for me, every act of the art of solving a mystery.
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The good thing about masturbation is that you don’t have to get dressed up for it.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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There 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.
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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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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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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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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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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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