A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThe enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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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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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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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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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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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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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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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 don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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Good writing is rewriting.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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