In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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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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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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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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Good writing is rewriting.
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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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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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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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I remember things the way they should have been.
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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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Most people don’t find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don’t even know they have great talent.
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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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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.
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