A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
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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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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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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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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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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Most people don’t find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don’t even know they have great talent.
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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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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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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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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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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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The good thing about masturbation is that you don’t have to get dressed up for it.
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