The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThere is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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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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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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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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I can see every monster as they come in.
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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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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from which it’s going to be told.
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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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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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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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