Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
TRUMAN CAPOTEGreat fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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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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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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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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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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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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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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It’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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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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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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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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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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It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something
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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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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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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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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 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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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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