A man who doesn’t dream is like a man who doesn’t sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.
TRUMAN CAPOTEA man who doesn’t dream is like a man who doesn’t sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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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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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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I can see every monster as they come in.
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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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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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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 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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I remember things the way they should have been.
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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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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A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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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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