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Thinking Quotes by Truman Capote
- No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. It scraped me right down to the marrow of my bones. It…
- Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
- I think the only person a writer has an obligation to is himself. If what I write doesn't fulfill something in me, if I don't…
- I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch.
- I think of myself as a stylist, and stylists can become notoriously obsessed with the placing of a comma, the weight of a semicolon.
- Norman Mailer thinks William Burroughs is a genius, which I think is ludicrous beyond words. I don't think William Burroughs has an ounce of talent.
- Rusty thinks I should smoke marijuana, and I did for a while, but it only makes me giggle.
- All human life has its seasons and cycles, and no one's personal chaos can be permanent. Winter, after all, gives way to spring and summer,…
- Of course people couldn't help but think I must be a bit of a dyke myself. And of course I am. Everyone is: a bit.…
- Did you ever, in that wonderland wilderness of adolesence [sic] ever, quite unexpectedly, see something, a dusk sky, a wild bird, a landscape, so exquisite…
- think of nothing things think of wind
- I suppose you think I'm very brazen. Or très fou. Or something.' Not at all.' She seemed disappointed. 'Yes, you do. Everybody does. I don't…
- I’ve tried that. I’ve tried aspirin, too. Rusty thinks I should smoke marijuana, and I did for a while, but it only makes me giggle.…
- I don't think I've ever drunk champagne before breakfast before. With breakfast on several occasions, but never before before.
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