Most people who become suddenly famous overnight will find that they lose practically eighty percent of their friends. Your old friends just can’t stand it for some reason.
TRUMAN CAPOTEIt is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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I always write the end of everything first. I always write the last chapters of my books before I write the beginning. Then I go back to the beginning. I mean, it’s always nice to know where you’re going is my theory.
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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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The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman, because he’ll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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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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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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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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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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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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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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I can see every monster as they come in.
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