I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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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A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
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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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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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Past certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder; it is best done when one is a child; after that, and if you are lucky, you will find a bridge of childhood and walk across it.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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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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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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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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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 better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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Most people don’t find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don’t even know they have great talent.
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