Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThe wind is us– it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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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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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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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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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
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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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A boy has to peddle his book.
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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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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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Yes: but aren’t love and marriage notoriously synonymous in the minds of most women? Certainly very few men get the first without promising the second: love, that is–if it’s just a matter of spreading her legs, almost any woman will do that for nothing.
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