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.
TRUMAN CAPOTESometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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Good writing is rewriting.
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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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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there’s no point in it….for me, every act of the art of solving a mystery.
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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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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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There is nobody in the world that you can’t get if you really concentrate on it, if you really want them. You’ve got to want it to the exclusion of everything else.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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