Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
TRUMAN CAPOTEThe enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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Yes: but aren’t love and marriage notoriously synonymous in the minds of most women? Certainly very few men get the first without promising the second: love, that is–if it’s just a matter of spreading her legs, almost any woman will do that for nothing.
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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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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That’s why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
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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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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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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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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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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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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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Most people don’t find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don’t even know they have great talent.
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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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