The wind is us– it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.
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.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
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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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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman, because he’ll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel.
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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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Everybody has to feel superior to somebody,” she said. “But it’s customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.
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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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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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They 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?
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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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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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Good writing is rewriting.
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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