Everybody has to feel superior to somebody,” she said. “But it’s customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.
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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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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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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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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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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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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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
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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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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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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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