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?
TRUMAN CAPOTEWriting stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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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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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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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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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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It’s a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something down out of them.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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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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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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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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