Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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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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Friendship 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.
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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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The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love, having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface.
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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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A boy has to peddle his book.
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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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It’s a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something down out of them.
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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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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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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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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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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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