A man who doesn’t dream is like a man who doesn’t sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.
TRUMAN CAPOTEAnticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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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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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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Good writing is rewriting.
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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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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
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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 remember things the way they should have been.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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It’s a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something down out of them.
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A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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