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Truman Capote Inspirational Quotes (190)

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It's bad enough in life to do without something YOU want but confound it, what gets my goat is not being able to give somebody something you want THEM to have.
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Most of life is so dull it is not worth discussing, and it is dull at all ages. When we change our brand of cigarette, move to a new neighborhood, subscribe to a different newspaper, fall in and out of love, we are protesting in ways both frivolous and deep against the not to be diluted dullness of day-to-day living.
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There was an American girl, Priscilla Johnson. She worked for U.P. in Moscow. She knew [John] Kennedy, and she met [Lee Harvey] Oswald around the same time I did. But I can tell you some­thing else almost as curious.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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our real fears are the sounds of footsteps walking in the corridors of our minds, and the anxieties, the phantom floatings, they create.
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A disquieting loneliness came into my life, but it induced no hunger for friends of longer acquaintance: they seemed now like a salt-free, sugarless diet.
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Rusty thinks I should smoke marijuana, and I did for a while, but it only makes me giggle.
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Life is difficult enough without Meryl Streep movies.
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My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.
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I'm scarcely an enfant!
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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I also write the last paragraph or page of a story first. That way I always know what I'm working towards.
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The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His work means nothing, otherwise. It has no meaning.
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Intelligence alone can't make a good writer and style alone can't make a good writer - that is, not a really important or significant writer - but the two things together make a really good writer.
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I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.
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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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Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town.
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Lively, too. Talky as a jaybird. With something smart to say on every subject: better than the radio.
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I've never worked for a newspaper. I've had some very bad reviews in newspapers.
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You can't blame a writer for what the characters say.
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She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox.
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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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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Before birth yes, what time was it then? A time like now, and when they were dead, it would be still like now: these trees, that sky, this earth, those acorn seeds, sun and wind, all the same, while they, with dust-turned hearts, change only.
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