The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
TRUMAN CAPOTEI prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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I can see every monster as they come in.
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How do I look so young? Quite simple: a complete vegetable diet, 12 hours sleep a night, and lots and lots of make-up.
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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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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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I remember things the way they should have been.
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there’s no point in it….for me, every act of the art of solving a mystery.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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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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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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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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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
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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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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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