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.
TRUMAN CAPOTEGood writing is rewriting.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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Good writing is rewriting.
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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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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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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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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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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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Good luck and believe me, dearest Doc – it’s better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear.
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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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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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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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 good thing about masturbation is that you don’t have to get dressed up for it.
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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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