Truman Capote quotes - page 3

Talent is a valued tormentor. (Truman Capote)
But I'm not a saint yet. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm homosexual. I'm a genius. View quote
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That's not writing, that's typing. View quote
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It's better to look at the sky than live there. View quote
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Love, having no geography, knows no boundaries. View quote
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart. View quote
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot. View quote
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Home is where you feel at home. I'm still looking. View quote
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living? View quote
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The good thing about masturbation is that you don't have to dress up for it. View quote
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I'll never get used to anything. Anybody that does they might as well be dead. (Truman Capote)
It may be normal, darling; but I'd rather be natural. View quote
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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection. View quote
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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. View quote
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Mick Jagger is about as sexy as a pissing toad. View quote
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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. View quote
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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring. View quote
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I don't want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together. View quote
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My yardstick is how somebody treats me. View quote
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But it's Sunday, Mr. Bell. Clocks are slow on Sundays. View quote
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She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox. In this case, as opposed to the scrupulous method of good taste and scientific grooming, the trick had been worked by exaggerating defects; she'd made them ornamental by admitting them boldly. (Truman Capote)
June, July, all through the warm months she hibernated like a winter animal who did not know spring had come and gone. View quote
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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. View quote
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Maybe the older you grow and the less easy it is to put thought into action, maybe that's why it gets all locked up in your head and becomes a burden. View quote
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I am always drawn back to places where I have lived, the houses and their neighborhoods. View quote
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