Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
TRUMAN CAPOTEFriendship 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.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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Reading dreams. That’s what started her walking down the road. Every day she’d walk a little further: a mile, and come home. Two miles, and come home. One day she just kept on.
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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
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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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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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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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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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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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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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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 can see every monster as they come in.
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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 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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