The wind is us– it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.
TRUMAN CAPOTEI remember things the way they should have been.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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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.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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I can see every monster as they come in.
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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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Past certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder; it is best done when one is a child; after that, and if you are lucky, you will find a bridge of childhood and walk across it.
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Yes: but aren’t love and marriage notoriously synonymous in the minds of most women? Certainly very few men get the first without promising the second: love, that is–if it’s just a matter of spreading her legs, almost any woman will do that for nothing.
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love, having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface.
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Reading dreams. That’s what started her walking down the road. Every day she’d walk a little further: a mile, and come home. Two miles, and come home. One day she just kept on.
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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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