70+ Truman Capote Quotes | Minimalist Quotes

We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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Leaving Sky Time Understand
Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
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Book Children Shoot Yourself
The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman, because he’ll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel.
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Dangerous Friendship Funny Money Sleep World Yourself
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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Dreams Man Poison Store
I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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Care Myself Opinion True
If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there’s no point in it….for me, every act of the art of solving a mystery.
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Art Artist Myself Mystery
There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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Cruelty Forgiveness Mistake Sin
Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
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Born Law Learning Music Painting Perspective Writing Yourself
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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Conversation Goodness Intelligence Scarcity Talk
Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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Book Breathe Goodness Hard Myself Thinking
Everybody has to feel superior to somebody,” she said. “But it’s customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.
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Evidence Feeling Present Privilege
It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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Choice Myself Natural Normal Ordinary
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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Believe Death Deep End God
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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Difficult Myself Novel View Writing
You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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Blame Character Talk Writing
Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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Autumn Beginning Myself Season
The good thing about masturbation is that you don’t have to get dressed up for it.
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Appearance Clothes Funny Goodness Sex Yourself
The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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Actor Better Himself Stupidity
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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Destroy Identity Mirror Reaasuarnce Romantic Secret Torture
The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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Law Live Problem Protection
Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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Imagination Key Open Terrorism Walk
I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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Believe Funny Myself Scissor
And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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Breathe Moments Rain
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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Failure Flavor Inspirational Motivational Perspective Success
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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Life Paper Pieces Reach Tired
The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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Quiet Reply Voice
I can see every monster as they come in.
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Monster Myself See

Truman Capote Quotes

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