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.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThe enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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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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There were hints of sunrise on the rim of the sky, yet it was still dark, and the traces of morning color were like goldfish swimming in ink.
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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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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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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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.
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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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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It’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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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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