The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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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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.
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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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They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the world: where then could we look for reassurance of our identities?
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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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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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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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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 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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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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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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A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
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The good thing about masturbation is that you don’t have to get dressed up for it.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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