Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
TRUMAN CAPOTEMost secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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I can see every monster as they come in.
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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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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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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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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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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 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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Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
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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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