I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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More Truman Capote Quotes
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Most people who become suddenly famous overnight will find that they lose practically eighty percent of their friends. Your old friends just can’t stand it for some reason.
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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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A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That’s why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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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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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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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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Good writing is rewriting.
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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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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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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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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