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.
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 brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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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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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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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 just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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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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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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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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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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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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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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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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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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