There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
TRUMAN CAPOTEHave you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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How do I look so young? Quite simple: a complete vegetable diet, 12 hours sleep a night, and lots and lots of make-up.
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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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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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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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