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.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThe brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love, having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love, having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface.
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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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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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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 enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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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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