It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThe problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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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?
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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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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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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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Most people who become suddenly famous overnight will find that they lose practically eighty percent of their friends. Your old friends just can’t stand it for some reason.
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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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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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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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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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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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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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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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