It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
TRUMAN CAPOTETo me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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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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They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the world: where then could we look for reassurance of our identities?
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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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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The good thing about masturbation is that you don’t have to get dressed up for it.
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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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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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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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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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Most people who become suddenly famous overnight will find that they lose practically eighty percent of their friends. Your old friends just can’t stand it for some reason.
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