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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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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It’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
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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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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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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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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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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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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 don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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