Truman Capote Quotes about Heart

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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.

The brain may take advice, but not the heart.

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Heart, Advice, Brain

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

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.

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Heart, Advice, Brain

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

I haven't anything against whores, except this: some of them may have an honest tongue but they all have dishonest hearts.

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Heart, May, Tongue

Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.82, Vintage

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 exudes a sour extra-human smell that makes the very stone seem flesh-alive, webbed and pulsing.

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Summer, Heart, Cities

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, that sky, this earth, those acorn seeds, sun and wind, all the same, while they, with dust-turned hearts, change only.

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Inspirational, Heart, Dust

Truman Capote (2007). “Other Voices, Other Rooms”, p.107, Vintage

Of many magics, one is watching a beloved sleep: free of eyes and awareness, you for a sweet moment hold the heart of him; helpless, he is then all, and however irrationally, you have trusted him to be, man-pure, child-tender.

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Sweet, Children, Heart