I remember things the way they should have been.
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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Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman, because he’ll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel.
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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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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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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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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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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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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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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can’t have too many friends because then you’re just not really friends.
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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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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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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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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Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
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