How do I look so young? Quite simple: a complete vegetable diet, 12 hours sleep a night, and lots and lots of make-up.
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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A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
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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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Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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Reading dreams. That’s what started her walking down the road. Every day she’d walk a little further: a mile, and come home. Two miles, and come home. One day she just kept on.
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One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from which it’s going to be told.
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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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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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Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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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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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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