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.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThere is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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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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I always write the end of everything first. I always write the last chapters of my books before I write the beginning. Then I go back to the beginning. I mean, it’s always nice to know where you’re going is my theory.
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It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something
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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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Reading dreams. That’s what started her walking down the road. Every day she’d walk a little further: a mile, and come home. Two miles, and come home. One day she just kept on.
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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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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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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 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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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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