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.
TRUMAN CAPOTEI always write the end of everything first. I always write the last chapters of my books before I write the beginning. Then I go back to the beginning. I mean, it’s always nice to know where you’re going is my theory.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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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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Reading dreams. That’s what started her walking down the road. Every day she’d walk a little further: a mile, and come home. Two miles, and come home. One day she just kept on.
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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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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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It’s a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something down out of them.
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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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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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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 is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something
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Everybody has to feel superior to somebody,” she said. “But it’s customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.
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