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.
TRUMAN CAPOTEIt’s better to look at the sky than live there.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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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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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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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something
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The good thing about masturbation is that you don’t have to get dressed up for it.
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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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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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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A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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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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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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