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.
TRUMAN CAPOTEFriendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can’t have too many friends because then you’re just not really friends.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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A man who doesn’t dream is like a man who doesn’t sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.
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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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Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
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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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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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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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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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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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The wind is us– it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.
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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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Most people don’t find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don’t even know they have great talent.
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