Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can’t have too many friends because then you’re just not really friends.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThey 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?
More Truman Capote Quotes
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Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down.
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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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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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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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Everybody has to feel superior to somebody,” she said. “But it’s customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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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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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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It’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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