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.
TRUMAN CAPOTELove is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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It’s a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something down out of them.
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Everybody has to feel superior to somebody,” she said. “But it’s customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.
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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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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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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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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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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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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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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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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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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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