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Love Quotes by Truman Capote

40 Love quotes by Truman Capote

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Truman Capote says you can choose to love anyone and that love works like a chain linking people and nature. He warns that loving a wild thing may leave you staring at the sky. He also notes that caring for a home with love feels like a marriage between you and the house.

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[L]ove, having no geography, knows no boundaries.

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I live in Brooklyn. By choice,

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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

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Love, having no geography, knows no boundaries.

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I told you: you can make yourself love anybody.

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Work is the only device I know of.

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You're wonderful. Unique. I love you.

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As Miss Golightly was saying, before she was so rudely interrupted...

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“Do you love him?" " I told you: you can make yourself love anybody.”

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You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.

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Never love a wild thing...If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky.

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She had only one flaw. She was perfect, otherwise whe was perfect.

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“We huddle in the bed, and she squeezes my hand I-love-you.”

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Love should be allowed. I’m all for it. Now that I’ve got a pretty good idea what it is.

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He loved her, he loved her, and until he'd loved her she had never minded being alone…

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“How do you feel if you're in love? she asked. Ah, said Rosita with swooning eyes, you feel as though pepper has…

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If you sweep a house, and tend its fires and fill its stove, and there is love in you all the years…

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Any work of art, provided it springs from a sincere motivation to further understanding between people, is an act of faith and…

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“A person ought to be able to marry men or women... . No, I'm serious. Love should be allowed. I'm all for…

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Of many magics, one is watching a beloved sleep: free of eyes and awareness, you for a sweet moment hold the heart…

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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,…

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“Ida, dear, please, do I complain? It is right a child should not love the mama the way the mama loves the…

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People who are having a love-sex relationship are continuously lying to each other because the very nature of the relationship demands that…

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“I think the argument that no whites are free of racism is quite erroneous. But then, on another level, does it really…

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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…

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Most of life is so dull it is not worth discussing, and it is dull at all ages. When we change our…

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Did you ever, in that wonderland wilderness of adolesence [sic] ever, quite unexpectedly, see something, a dusk sky, a wild bird, a…

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“We are speaking of love. A leaf, a handful of seed - begin with these, learn a little what it is to…

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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,…

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“You cold or something?' he said. She strained against him; she wanted to pass clear through him: 'It's a chill, it's nothing';…

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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,…

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“Never love a wild thing, Mr. Bell,' Holly advised him. 'That was Doc's mistake. He was always lugging home wild things. A…

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“Is it - I'm not certain - possible to love someone if your first interest is the use you can make of…

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“Let me begin by telling you that I was in love. An ordinary statement, to be sure, but not an ordinary fact,…

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“But if Miss Golightly remained unconscious of my existence, except as a doorbell convenience, I became, through the summer, rather an authority…

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“The blame of course belonged to Clyde, who just was not much given to talk. Also, he seemed very little curious himself:…

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Actually, I think friendship and love are exactly the same thing.

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All writing, all art, is an act of faith. If one tries to contribute to human understanding, how can that be called…

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“Any love is natural and beautiful that lies within a person’s nature; only hypocrites would hold a man responsible for what he…

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The true beloveds of this world are in their lover's eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends,…

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