It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something
TRUMAN CAPOTEThe wind is us– it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
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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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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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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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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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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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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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Good writing is rewriting.
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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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A boy has to peddle his book.
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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.
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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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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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