It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
TRUMAN CAPOTEGreat fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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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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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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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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If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there’s no point in it….for me, every act of the art of solving a mystery.
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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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It’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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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 problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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There 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.
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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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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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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Everybody has to feel superior to somebody,” she said. “But it’s customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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