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 CAPOTEThe brain may take advice, but not the heart.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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Good writing is rewriting.
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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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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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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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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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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 brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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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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The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
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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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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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