The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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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.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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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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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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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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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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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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It’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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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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If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there’s no point in it….for me, every act of the art of solving a mystery.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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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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