Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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 good thing about masturbation is that you don’t have to get dressed up for it.
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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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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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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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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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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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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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It’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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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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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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