Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
TRUMAN CAPOTEMost secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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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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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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The good thing about masturbation is that you don’t have to get dressed up for it.
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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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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 better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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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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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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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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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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