I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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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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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
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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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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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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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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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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 remember things the way they should have been.
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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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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
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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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