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 CAPOTEAprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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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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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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The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love, having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface.
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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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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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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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Good writing is rewriting.
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Personally, I rather think that if you’re not creative you’ve got a problem on your hands. If you are creative you’ve got a double problem.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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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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