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.
TRUMAN CAPOTEReally being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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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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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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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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A boy has to peddle his book.
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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’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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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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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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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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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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There were hints of sunrise on the rim of the sky, yet it was still dark, and the traces of morning color were like goldfish swimming in ink.
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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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