To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
TRUMAN CAPOTEGood writing is rewriting.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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Good writing is rewriting.
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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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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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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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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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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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It’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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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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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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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there’s no point in it….for me, every act of the art of solving a mystery.
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