Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
TRUMAN CAPOTEThere 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.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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Personally, I rather think that if you’re not creative you’ve got a problem on your hands. If you are creative you’ve got a double problem.
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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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It’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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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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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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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can’t have too many friends because then you’re just not really friends.
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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.
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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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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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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Good luck and believe me, dearest Doc – it’s better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear.
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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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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