It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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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It’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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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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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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It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something
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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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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.
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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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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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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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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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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