Most people don’t find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don’t even know they have great talent.
TRUMAN CAPOTEAnyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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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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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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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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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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I can see every monster as they come in.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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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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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman, because he’ll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel.
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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 a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
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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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Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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The wind is us– it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.
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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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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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