Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThe 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.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
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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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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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It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something
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There 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.
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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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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I remember things the way they should have been.
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The wind is us– it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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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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