Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
TRUMAN CAPOTEFinishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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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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Everybody has to feel superior to somebody,” she said. “But it’s customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.
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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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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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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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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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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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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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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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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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