Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
TRUMAN CAPOTEIt’s better to look at the sky than live there.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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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 very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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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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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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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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The wind is us– it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.
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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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I can see every monster as they come in.
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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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 problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can’t have too many friends because then you’re just not really friends.
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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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Good writing is rewriting.
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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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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Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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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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