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.
TRUMAN CAPOTEYou can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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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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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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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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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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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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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 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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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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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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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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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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