Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
TRUMAN CAPOTEIt’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.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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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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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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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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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of 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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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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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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One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from which it’s going to be told.
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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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I can see every monster as they come in.
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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