Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
TRUMAN CAPOTEMost secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the world: where then could we look for reassurance of our identities?
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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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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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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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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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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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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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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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Yes: but aren’t love and marriage notoriously synonymous in the minds of most women? Certainly very few men get the first without promising the second: love, that is–if it’s just a matter of spreading her legs, almost any woman will do that for nothing.
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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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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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Good writing is rewriting.
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