There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
TRUMAN CAPOTEEverybody has to feel superior to somebody,” she said. “But it’s customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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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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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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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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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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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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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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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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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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How do I look so young? Quite simple: a complete vegetable diet, 12 hours sleep a night, and lots and lots of make-up.
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