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.
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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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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I can see every monster as they come in.
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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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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
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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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A boy has to peddle his book.
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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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How do I look so young? Quite simple: a complete vegetable diet, 12 hours sleep a night, and lots and lots of make-up.
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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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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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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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