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Them Quotes by Truman Capote
- Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn…
- People who are having a love-sex relationship are continuously lying to each other because the very nature of the relationship demands that they do, because…
- Of course people couldn't help but think I must be a bit of a dyke myself. And of course I am. Everyone is: a bit.…
- The wind is us-- it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.
- He’d always been willing to confess his faults, for, by admitting them, it was as if he made them no longer exist.
- 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…
- 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…
- There's lots of things you don't know. All kinds of strange things . . . mostly they happened before we were born: that makes them…
- If a man doesn't like baseball, then he must like horses, and if he doesn't like either of them, well, I'm in trouble anyway: he…
- I haven't anything against whores, except this: some of them may have an honest tongue but they all have dishonest hearts.
- It's bad enough in life to do without something YOU want; but confound it, what gets my goat is not being able to give somebody…
- Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot". ~Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1958, spoken by the character Holly Golightly
- 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…
- You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.
- Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
- But there were moments when she played songs that made you wonder where she learned them, where indeed she came from. Harsh-tender wandering tunes with…
- 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…
More Them Quotes
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster