The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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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A boy has to peddle his book.
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Past 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.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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Good writing is rewriting.
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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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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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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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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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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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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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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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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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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from which it’s going to be told.
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I can see every monster as they come in.
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Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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