There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
TRUMAN CAPOTEIt is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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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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Past certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder; it is best done when one is a child; after that, and if you are lucky, you will find a bridge of childhood and walk across it.
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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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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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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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 man who doesn’t dream is like a man who doesn’t sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.
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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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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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The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
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A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That’s why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
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