The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love, having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface.
TRUMAN CAPOTEHome is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That’s why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
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Good writing is rewriting.
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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It’s a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something down out of them.
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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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I remember things the way they should have been.
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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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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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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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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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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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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