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.
TRUMAN CAPOTELove is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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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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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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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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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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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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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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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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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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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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I can see every monster as they come in.
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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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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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