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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Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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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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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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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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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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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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Good luck and believe me, dearest Doc – it’s better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear.
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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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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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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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I can see every monster as they come in.
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Most people who become suddenly famous overnight will find that they lose practically eighty percent of their friends. Your old friends just can’t stand it for some reason.
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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
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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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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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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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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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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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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 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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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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