There is nobody in the world that you can’t get if you really concentrate on it, if you really want them. You’ve got to want it to the exclusion of everything else.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThere 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.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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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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The wind is us– it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.
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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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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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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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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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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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I can see every monster as they come in.
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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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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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