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Truman Capote Quotes

I’ve tried to believe, but I don’t, I can’t, and there’s no use pretending Picture Quote #1

The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have Picture Quote #1

I couldn’t understand a sense of unease that multiplied until I could hear my heart beating Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I don’t think I’ve ever drunk champagne before breakfast before. With breakfast on several occasions, but never before before Picture Quote #1

Never love a wild thing... If you let yourself love a wild thing. You’ll end up looking at the sky Picture Quote #1

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You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who’s a friend Picture Quote #1

That’s the question: is truth an illusion, or is illusion truth, or are they essentially the same? Myself, I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true Picture Quote #1

Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller Picture Quote #1

Nancy clutter is always in a hurry, but she always has time. And that is the definition of a lady Picture Quote #1

I’ll never get used to anything. Anybody that does they might as well be dead Picture Quote #1

She took off her dark glasses and squinted at me. It was as though her eyes were shattered prisms, the dots of blue and gray and green like broken bits of sparkle Picture Quote #1

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She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox Picture Quote #1

And since gin to artifice bears the same relation as tears to mascara, her attractions at once dissembled Picture Quote #1

I think the only person a writer has an obligation to is himself. If what I write doesn’t fulfill something in me, if I don’t honestly feel it’s the best I can do, then I’m miserable Picture Quote #1

I am a completely horizontal author. I can’t think unless I’m lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch Picture Quote #1

I always write the end of everything first. I always write the last chapters of my books before I write the beginning... Then I go back to the beginning. I mean, it’s always nice to know where you’re going is my theory Picture Quote #1

I think of myself as a stylist, and stylists can become notoriously obsessed with the placing of a comma, the weight of a semicolon Picture Quote #1

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A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology Picture Quote #1

When seriously explored, the short story seems to me the most difficult and disciplining form of prose writing extant. Whatever control and technique I may have I owe entirely to my training in this medium Picture Quote #1

Rusty thinks I should smoke marijuana, and I did for a while, but it only makes me giggle Picture Quote #1

The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His work means nothing, otherwise. It has no meaning Picture Quote #1

A man who doesn’t dream is like a man who doesn’t sweat. He stores up a lot of poison Picture Quote #1

First, a gorgeous breakfast: just everything you can imagine from flapjacks and fried squirrel to hominy grits and honey in the comb... we’re so impatient to get at the presents we can’t eat a mouthful Picture Quote #1

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I will say only that all a writer has to work with is the material he has gathered as the result of his own endeavor and observations, and he cannot be denied the right to use it. Condemn, but not deny Picture Quote #1

I always felt that nobody was going to understand me, going to understand what I felt about things. I guess that’s why I started writing. At least on paper I could put down what I thought Picture Quote #1

Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me pegged, because of the way I am, the way I talk. And they’re always wrong Picture Quote #1

I’ve got something inside of me, peasantlike and stubborn, and I’m in it till the end of the race Picture Quote #1

... of all things this was the saddest, that life goes on: if one leaves one’s lover, life should stop for him, and if one disappears from the world, then the world should stop, too: and it never did. And that was the real reason for most people getting up in the morning: not because it would matter but because it wouldn’t Picture Quote #1

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: and why not? Any love is natural and beautiful that lies within a person’s nature; only hypocrites would hold a man responsible for what he loves, emotional illiterates and those of righteous envy, who, in their agitated concern, mistake so frequently the arrow pointing to heaven for the one that leads to hell Picture Quote #1

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I’ve tried to believe, but I don’t, I can’t, and there’s no use pretending (Truman Capote Quotes) The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have (Truman Capote Quotes) I couldn’t understand a sense of unease that multiplied until I could hear my heart beating (Truman Capote Quotes) 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 (Truman Capote Quotes) I don’t think I’ve ever drunk champagne before breakfast before. With breakfast on several occasions, but never before before (Truman Capote Quotes) Never love a wild thing... If you let yourself love a wild thing. You’ll end up looking at the sky (Truman Capote Quotes) You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who’s a friend (Truman Capote Quotes) That’s the question: is truth an illusion, or is illusion truth, or are they essentially the same? Myself, I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true (Truman Capote Quotes) Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller (Truman Capote Quotes) Nancy clutter is always in a hurry, but she always has time. And that is the definition of a lady (Truman Capote Quotes) I’ll never get used to anything. Anybody that does they might as well be dead (Truman Capote Quotes) She took off her dark glasses and squinted at me. It was as though her eyes were shattered prisms, the dots of blue and gray and green like broken bits of sparkle (Truman Capote Quotes) She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox (Truman Capote Quotes) And since gin to artifice bears the same relation as tears to mascara, her attractions at once dissembled (Truman Capote Quotes) I think the only person a writer has an obligation to is himself. If what I write doesn’t fulfill something in me, if I don’t honestly feel it’s the best I can do, then I’m miserable (Truman Capote Quotes) I am a completely horizontal author. I can’t think unless I’m lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch (Truman Capote Quotes) I always write the end of everything first. I always write the last chapters of my books before I write the beginning... Then I go back to the beginning. I mean, it’s always nice to know where you’re going is my theory (Truman Capote Quotes) I think of myself as a stylist, and stylists can become notoriously obsessed with the placing of a comma, the weight of a semicolon (Truman Capote Quotes) A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology (Truman Capote Quotes) When seriously explored, the short story seems to me the most difficult and disciplining form of prose writing extant. Whatever control and technique I may have I owe entirely to my training in this medium (Truman Capote Quotes) Rusty thinks I should smoke marijuana, and I did for a while, but it only makes me giggle (Truman Capote Quotes) The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His work means nothing, otherwise. It has no meaning (Truman Capote Quotes) A man who doesn’t dream is like a man who doesn’t sweat. He stores up a lot of poison (Truman Capote Quotes) First, a gorgeous breakfast: just everything you can imagine from flapjacks and fried squirrel to hominy grits and honey in the comb... we’re so impatient to get at the presents we can’t eat a mouthful (Truman Capote Quotes) I will say only that all a writer has to work with is the material he has gathered as the result of his own endeavor and observations, and he cannot be denied the right to use it. Condemn, but not deny (Truman Capote Quotes) I always felt that nobody was going to understand me, going to understand what I felt about things. I guess that’s why I started writing. At least on paper I could put down what I thought (Truman Capote Quotes) Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me pegged, because of the way I am, the way I talk. And they’re always wrong (Truman Capote Quotes) I’ve got something inside of me, peasantlike and stubborn, and I’m in it till the end of the race (Truman Capote Quotes) ... of all things this was the saddest, that life goes on: if one leaves one’s lover, life should stop for him, and if one disappears from the world, then the world should stop, too: and it never did. And that was the real reason for most people getting up in the morning: not because it would matter but because it wouldn’t (Truman Capote Quotes) 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: and why not? Any love is natural and beautiful that lies within a person’s nature; only hypocrites would hold a man responsible for what he loves, emotional illiterates and those of righteous envy, who, in their agitated concern, mistake so frequently the arrow pointing to heaven for the one that leads to hell (Truman Capote Quotes)

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