Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can’t have too many friends because then you’re just not really friends.
TRUMAN CAPOTEWriting 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.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman, because he’ll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel.
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How do I look so young? Quite simple: a complete vegetable diet, 12 hours sleep a night, and lots and lots of make-up.
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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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Everybody has to feel superior to somebody,” she said. “But it’s customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.
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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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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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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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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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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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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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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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