It’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
TRUMAN CAPOTEYou can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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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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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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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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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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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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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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There were hints of sunrise on the rim of the sky, yet it was still dark, and the traces of morning color were like goldfish swimming in ink.
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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Past certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder; it is best done when one is a child; after that, and if you are lucky, you will find a bridge of childhood and walk across it.
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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