The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
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More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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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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One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from which it’s going to be told.
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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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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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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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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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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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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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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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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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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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