I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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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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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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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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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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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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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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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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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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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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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
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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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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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