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.
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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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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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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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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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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Everybody has to feel superior to somebody,” she said. “But it’s customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.
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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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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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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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Yes: but aren’t love and marriage notoriously synonymous in the minds of most women? Certainly very few men get the first without promising the second: love, that is–if it’s just a matter of spreading her legs, almost any woman will do that for nothing.
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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.
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman, because he’ll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel.
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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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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Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
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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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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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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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