"Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
~ Truman Capote ~
Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
More Truman Capote quotes
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"You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.
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"Strange where our passions carry us, floggingly pursue us, forcing upon us unwanted dreams, unwelcome destinies.
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"He loved her, he loved her, and until he'd loved her she had never minded being alone....
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"Hot weather opens the skull of a city, exposing its white brain, and its heart of nerves, which sizzle like the wires inside a lightbulb. And there ex...
"You cold or something?' he said. She strained against him; she wanted to pass clear through him: 'It's a chill, it's nothing'; and then, pushing a lit...