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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

Champagne does have one regular drawback: swilled as a regular thing a certain sourness settles in the tummy, and the result is permanent bad breath. Really incurable. – Truman Capote

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Drinking
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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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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring…. I thought of the future, and spoke of the past. – Truman Capote

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Autumn
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My music had roots which Id dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil. – Ray Charles

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I want my music to do the explaining. – Demi Lovato

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Music

A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music, and you provide the silence. – Leopold Stokowski

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Music

The bottom line is, I tend to be going back to older and older music. – Martin Scorsese

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This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress. – Ramana Maharshi

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Freedom

I get up early in the morning, 4 oclock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, thats enough. In the afternoon, I run. – Haruki Murakami

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Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions. – Pablo Picasso

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