You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
TRUMAN CAPOTEA boy has to peddle his book.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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Good writing is rewriting.
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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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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
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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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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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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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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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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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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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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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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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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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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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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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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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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 only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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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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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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