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.
TRUMAN CAPOTEFriendship 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.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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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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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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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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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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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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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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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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