Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
TRUMAN CAPOTEHome is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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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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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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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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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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A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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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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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
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