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.
TRUMAN CAPOTESometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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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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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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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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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
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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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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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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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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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