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?
TRUMAN CAPOTEReading 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.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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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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The good thing about masturbation is that you don’t have to get dressed up for it.
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Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
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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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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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There were hints of sunrise on the rim of the sky, yet it was still dark, and the traces of morning color were like goldfish swimming in ink.
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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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