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 CAPOTEHow do I look so young? Quite simple: a complete vegetable diet, 12 hours sleep a night, and lots and lots of make-up.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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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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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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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down.
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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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The good thing about masturbation is that you don’t have to get dressed up for it.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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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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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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Personally, I rather think that if you’re not creative you’ve got a problem on your hands. If you are creative you’ve got a double problem.
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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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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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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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