Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
TRUMAN CAPOTEYou can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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The good thing about masturbation is that you don’t have to get dressed up for it.
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something
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They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the world: where then could we look for reassurance of our identities?
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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from which it’s going to be told.
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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
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Most people who become suddenly famous overnight will find that they lose practically eighty percent of their friends. Your old friends just can’t stand it for some reason.
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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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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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A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
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