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.
TRUMAN CAPOTEI don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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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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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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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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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.
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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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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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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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
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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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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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