Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
TRUMAN CAPOTEFailure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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There were hints of sunrise on the rim of the sky, yet it was still dark, and the traces of morning color were like goldfish swimming in ink.
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They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the world: where then could we look for reassurance of our identities?
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Yes: but aren’t love and marriage notoriously synonymous in the minds of most women? Certainly very few men get the first without promising the second: love, that is–if it’s just a matter of spreading her legs, almost any woman will do that for nothing.
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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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The good thing about masturbation is that you don’t have to get dressed up for it.
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
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Good writing is rewriting.
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A man who doesn’t dream is like a man who doesn’t sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can’t have too many friends because then you’re just not really friends.
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Good luck and believe me, dearest Doc – it’s better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear.
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