Past certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder; it is best done when one is a child; after that, and if you are lucky, you will find a bridge of childhood and walk across it.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThe better the actor, the more stupid he is.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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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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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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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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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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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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