Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
TRUMAN CAPOTEEverybody has to feel superior to somebody,” she said. “But it’s customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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How do I look so young? Quite simple: a complete vegetable diet, 12 hours sleep a night, and lots and lots of make-up.
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The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman, because he’ll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That’s why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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Most people don’t find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don’t even know they have great talent.
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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
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Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down.
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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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It’s a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something down out of them.
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The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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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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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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