Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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More Truman Capote Quotes
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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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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There 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.
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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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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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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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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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It’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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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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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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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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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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