The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThey 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?
More Truman Capote Quotes
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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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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I always write the end of everything first. I always write the last chapters of my books before I write the beginning. Then I go back to the beginning. I mean, it’s always nice to know where you’re going is my theory.
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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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Personally, I rather think that if you’re not creative you’ve got a problem on your hands. If you are creative you’ve got a double problem.
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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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Home is where you feel at home. I’m still looking.
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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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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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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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