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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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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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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How do I look so young? Quite simple: a complete vegetable diet, 12 hours sleep a night, and lots and lots of make-up.
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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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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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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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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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Most people who become suddenly famous overnight will find that they lose practically eighty percent of their friends. Your old friends just can’t stand it for some reason.
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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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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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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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