You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love, having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface.
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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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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’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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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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Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down.
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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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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The good thing about masturbation is that you don’t have to get dressed up for it.
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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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