You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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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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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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I remember things the way they should have been.
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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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Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
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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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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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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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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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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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I can see every monster as they come in.
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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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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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It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something
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There is nobody in the world that you can’t get if you really concentrate on it, if you really want them. You’ve got to want it to the exclusion of everything else.
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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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It’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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