The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
TRUMAN CAPOTEIt’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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.
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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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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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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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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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Good 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.
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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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Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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I thought of the future, and spoke of 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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I can see every monster as they come in.
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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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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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