Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
TRUMAN CAPOTEYes: 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.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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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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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love, having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface.
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Good writing is rewriting.
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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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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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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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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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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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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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It’s a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something down out of them.
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