You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
TRUMAN CAPOTEAprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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The wind is us– it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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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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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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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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I always write the end of everything first. I always write the last chapters of my books before I write the beginning. Then I go back to the beginning. I mean, it’s always nice to know where you’re going is my theory.
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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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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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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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