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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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
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Most people who become suddenly famous overnight will find that they lose practically eighty percent of their friends. Your old friends just can’t stand it for some reason.
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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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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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The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
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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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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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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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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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