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 CAPOTEA conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That’s why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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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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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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If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there’s no point in it….for me, every act of the art of solving a mystery.
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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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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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The wind is us– it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.
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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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There is nobody in the world that you can’t get if you really concentrate on it, if you really want them. You’ve got to want it to the exclusion of everything else.
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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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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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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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