A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
TRUMAN CAPOTEAnyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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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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Reading dreams. That’s what started her walking down the road. Every day she’d walk a little further: a mile, and come home. Two miles, and come home. One day she just kept on.
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Personally, I rather think that if you’re not creative you’ve got a problem on your hands. If you are creative you’ve got a double problem.
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Good luck and believe me, dearest Doc – it’s better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear.
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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Good writing is rewriting.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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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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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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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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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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