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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More Truman Capote Quotes
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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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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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A boy has to peddle his book.
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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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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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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