Everybody has to feel superior to somebody,” she said. “But it’s customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThe brain may take advice, but not the heart.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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The wind is us– it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.
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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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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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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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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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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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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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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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Good luck and believe me, dearest Doc – it’s better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear.
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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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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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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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