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.
TRUMAN CAPOTEMost people don’t find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don’t even know they have great talent.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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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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It’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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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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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
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Most people don’t find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don’t even know they have great talent.
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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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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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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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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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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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Yes: but aren’t love and marriage notoriously synonymous in the minds of most women? Certainly very few men get the first without promising the second: love, that is–if it’s just a matter of spreading her legs, almost any woman will do that for nothing.
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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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Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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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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