583 Quotes by Truman Capote

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    The wind is us it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.

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    Disco is the best floor show in town. It's very democratic, boys with boys, girls with girls, girls with boys, blacks and whites, capitalists and Marxists, Chinese and everything else, all in one big mix.

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    Failure is the condiment which gives success its flavor.

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    Love, having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface.

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    You are a human being with a free will. Which puts you above the animal level. But if you live your life without feeling and compassion for the fellowmen - you are as an animal - 'an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth' & happiness & peace of mind is not attained by living thus.

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    But I'm not a saint yet. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm homosexual. I'm a genius. Of course, I could be all four of these dubious things and still be a saint.

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