Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThere 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.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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I can see every monster as they come in.
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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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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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There is only one unpardonable sin–deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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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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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there’s no point in it….for me, every act of the art of solving a mystery.
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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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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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It’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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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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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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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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