A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That’s why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
TRUMAN CAPOTEGood luck and believe me, dearest Doc – it’s better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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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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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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A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
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A man who doesn’t dream is like a man who doesn’t sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.
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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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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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Personally, I rather think that if you’re not creative you’ve got a problem on your hands. If you are creative you’ve got a double problem.
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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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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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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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