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

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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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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Other Quotes from
Music
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Color is a plastic means of creating intervals… color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony. – Hans Hofmann

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Music

Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult! – Taylor Swift

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Music

Musics staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are. – Gary Wright

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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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Music

Random Quotes

The thing about Republicans is that they dont care so much about respect, but they love fear, at least in others. – Jane Smiley

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Fear

Before I was born my mother was in great agony of spirit and in a tragic situation. She could take no food except iced oysters and champagne. If people ask me when I began to dance, I reply, In my mothers womb, probably as a result of the oysters and champagne – the food of Aphrodite. – Isadora Duncan

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Dance, Dancing

I write entirely to find out what Im thinking, what Im looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear. – Joan Didion

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Fear

Love, and a cough, cannot be hid. – George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum, 1651

Category:
Being in Love