The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
TRUMAN CAPOTEWe all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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I can see every monster as they come in.
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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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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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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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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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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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Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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