I can see every monster as they come in.
TRUMAN CAPOTETo me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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There were hints of sunrise on the rim of the sky, yet it was still dark, and the traces of morning color were like goldfish swimming in ink.
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Everybody has to feel superior to somebody,” she said. “But it’s customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.
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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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Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can’t have too many friends because then you’re just not really friends.
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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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Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
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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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Most people don’t find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don’t even know they have great talent.
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Reading dreams. That’s what started her walking down the road. Every day she’d walk a little further: a mile, and come home. Two miles, and come home. One day she just kept on.
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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