The good thing about masturbation is that you don’t have to get dressed up for it.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThere is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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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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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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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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I thought of the future, and spoke of 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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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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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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They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the world: where then could we look for reassurance of our identities?
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The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
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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 prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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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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