Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThe good thing about masturbation is that you don’t have to get dressed up for it.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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The wind is us– it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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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’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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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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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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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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I can see every monster as they come in.
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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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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
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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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The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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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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