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.
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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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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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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Good writing is rewriting.
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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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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I remember things the way they should have been.
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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 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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The good thing about masturbation is that you don’t have to get dressed up for it.
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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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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