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Only Quotes by Truman Capote
- Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town.
- 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…
- 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…
- Rusty thinks I should smoke marijuana, and I did for a while, but it only makes me giggle.
- The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His work means nothing, otherwise. It has no meaning.
- Work is the only device I know of.
- New York is the only real city-city.
- 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…
- They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the…
- all his prayers of the past had been simple concrete requests: God, give me a bicycle, a knife with seven blades, a box of oil…
- She had only one flaw. She was perfect, otherwise whe was perfect.
- there is only one unpardonable sin--deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
- 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…
- I’ve tried that. I’ve tried aspirin, too. Rusty thinks I should smoke marijuana, and I did for a while, but it only makes me giggle.…
- Before birth; yes, what time was it then? A time like now, and when they were dead, it would be still like now: these trees,…
- It snowed all week. Wheels and footsteps moved soundlessly on the street, as if the business of living continued secretly behind a pale but impenetrable…
- 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…
- She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox.
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