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One Quotes by Truman Capote
- Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.
- No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. It scraped me right down to the marrow of my bones. It…
- Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town.
- Champagne does have one regular drawback: swilled as a regular thing a certain sourness settles in the tummy, and the result is permanent bad breath.…
- 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…
- The true beloveds of this world are in their lover's eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends, a child's Sunday,…
- All writing, all art, is an act of faith. If one tries to contribute to human understanding, how can that be called decadent? It's like…
- A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
- Past certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder; it is best done when one is a child; after that,…
- All human life has its seasons and cycles, and no one's personal chaos can be permanent. Winter, after all, gives way to spring and summer,…
- There is really no practical help that one can offer; it is a matter of self-discovery, of one's own convictions, or working with one's own…
- Did you ever, in that wonderland wilderness of adolesence [sic] ever, quite unexpectedly, see something, a dusk sky, a wild bird, a landscape, so exquisite…
- But mostly they were lies I told; it wasn't my fault, I couldn't remember, because it was as though I'd been to one of those…
- Since each story presents its own technical problems, obviously one can't generalize about them on a two-times-two-equals-four basis. Finding the right form for your story…
- It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
- Of many magics, one is watching a beloved sleep: free of eyes and awareness, you for a sweet moment hold the heart of him; helpless,…
- Still, when all is said, somewhere one must belong: even the soaring falcon returns to its master's wrist.
- [Y]outh is hardly human: it can't be, for the young never believe they will die...especially would they never believe that death comes, and often, in…
- She had only one flaw. She was perfect, otherwise whe was perfect.
- The average personality reshapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete overhaul - desirable or not, it is a natural thing that…
- there is only one unpardonable sin--deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
- Poor slob without a name. It's a little inconvenient, his not having a name. But I haven't the right to give him one: he'll have…
- Just remember: If one bird carried every grain of sand, grain by grain, across the ocean, by the time he got them all on the…
- 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…
- I don't mean I'd mind being rich and famous. That's very much on my schedule, and someday I'll try to get around to it; but…
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- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
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