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Work Quotes by Truman Capote
- I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it…
- All writing, all art, is an act of faith. If one tries to contribute to human understanding, how can that be called decadent? It's like…
- A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
- The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His work means nothing, otherwise. It has no meaning.
- Work is the only device I know of.
- I will say only that all a writer has to work with is the material he has gathered as the result of his own endeavor…
- There is really no practical help that one can offer; it is a matter of self-discovery, of one's own convictions, or working with one's own…
- But, my dear, so few things are fulfilled: what are most lives but a series of incompleted episodes? 'We work in the dark, we do…
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