Truman Capote Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

• 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 will rise and find the surface: and why not? Any love is natural and beautiful that lies within a person's nature; only hypocrites would hold a man responsible for what he loves, emotional illiterates and those of righteous envy, who, in their agitated concern, mistake so frequently the arrow pointing to heaven for the one that leads to hell.

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  Love, Beautiful, Dream

  Truman Capote (2007). “Other Voices, Other Rooms”, p.124, Vintage

• I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch.

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  Lying, Writing, Thinking

  Truman Capote, M. Thomas Inge (1987). “Truman Capote: Conversations”, p.28, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• 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 supernatural castles visited by characters in legends: once away, you do not remember, all that is left is the ghostly echo of haunting wonder.

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  Lying, Character, Echoes

  Truman Capote (2013). “Portraits and Observations”, p.20, Modern Library

• 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 you have to make a love object of this person, which means that you editorialize about them. You cut out what you don't want to see, you add this if it isn't there. And so therefore you're building a lie.

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  Sex, Lying, Mean

  Truman Capote, M. Thomas Inge (1987). “Truman Capote: Conversations”, p.177, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• I don't use a typewriter, I write longhand, with a pencil. Essentially I'm a horizontal writer. I think better when I'm lying down.

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  Lying, Writing, Thinking

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