Everybody has to feel superior to somebody,” she said. “But it’s customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.
TRUMAN CAPOTEAnticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from which it’s going to be told.
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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there.
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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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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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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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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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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 thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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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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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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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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