The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
TRUMAN CAPOTEAnyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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The good thing about masturbation is that you don’t have to get dressed up for it.
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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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Past certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder; it is best done when one is a child; after that, and if you are lucky, you will find a bridge of childhood and walk across it.
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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Personally, I rather think that if you’re not creative you’ve got a problem on your hands. If you are creative you’ve got a double problem.
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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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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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It’s a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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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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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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