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Quote by Truman Capote
Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painti

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. – Truman Capote

Other quotes by Truman Capote

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. Thats why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet. – Truman Capote

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good
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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You cant have too many friends because then youre just not really friends. – Truman Capote

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Friendship
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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what its about, but the inner music that words make. – Truman Capote

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Music
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Do I listen to pop music because Im miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music? – John Cusack

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Music

Im not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down. – David Byrne

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Music

I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens. – Russell Simmons

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I just do what I do. I like to make music. – Neil Young

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I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But Ive also never run to the movies because somethings in 3-D. – J. J. Abrams

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Riches are for spending. – Francis Bacon

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Justice, voiceless, unseen, seeth thee when thou sleepest and when thou goest forth and when thou liest down. Continually doth she attend thee, now aslant thy course, now at a later time. – Aeschylus

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I am not a morning person. I like to sleep in. – Martha Plimpton

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