The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThe 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.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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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 prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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Good luck and believe me, dearest Doc – it’s better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear.
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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something
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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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A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
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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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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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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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One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from which it’s going to be told.
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Good writing is rewriting.
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