I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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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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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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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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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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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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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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
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Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
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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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