It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
TRUMAN CAPOTEI don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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Most people who become suddenly famous overnight will find that they lose practically eighty percent of their friends. Your old friends just can’t stand it for some reason.
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Past certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder; it is best done when one is a child; after that, and if you are lucky, you will find a bridge of childhood and walk across it.
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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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Reading dreams. That’s what started her walking down the road. Every day she’d walk a little further: a mile, and come home. Two miles, and come home. One day she just kept on.
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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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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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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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I remember things the way they should have been.
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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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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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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There is nobody in the world that you can’t get if you really concentrate on it, if you really want them. You’ve got to want it to the exclusion of everything else.
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A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
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