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.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThere is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That’s why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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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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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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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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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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A man who doesn’t dream is like a man who doesn’t sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.
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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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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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Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down.
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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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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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