The good thing about masturbation is that you don’t have to get dressed up for it.
TRUMAN CAPOTEIt is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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Writing 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.
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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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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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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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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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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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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I always write the end of everything first. I always write the last chapters of my books before I write the beginning. Then I go back to the beginning. I mean, it’s always nice to know where you’re going is my theory.
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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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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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