There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
TRUMAN CAPOTEWriting 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.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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A man who doesn’t dream is like a man who doesn’t sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.
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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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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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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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I can see every monster as they come in.
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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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How do I look so young? Quite simple: a complete vegetable diet, 12 hours sleep a night, and lots and lots of make-up.
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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