The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
TRUMAN CAPOTEMost 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.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
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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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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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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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I can see every monster as they come in.
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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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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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The good thing about masturbation is that you don’t have to get dressed up for it.
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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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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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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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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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