Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThe problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down.
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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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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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Yes: but aren’t love and marriage notoriously synonymous in the minds of most women? Certainly very few men get the first without promising the second: love, that is–if it’s just a matter of spreading her legs, almost any woman will do that for nothing.
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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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I always write the end of everything first. I always write the last chapters of my books before I write the beginning. Then I go back to the beginning. I mean, it’s always nice to know where you’re going is my theory.
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Good writing is rewriting.
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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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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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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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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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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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The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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