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 CAPOTEIt is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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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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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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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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Good writing is rewriting.
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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