And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
TRUMAN CAPOTEPersonally, 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.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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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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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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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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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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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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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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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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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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A boy has to peddle his book.
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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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A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can’t have too many friends because then you’re just not really friends.
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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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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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