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.
TRUMAN CAPOTEAprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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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.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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I can see every monster as they come in.
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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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Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
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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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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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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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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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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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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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