Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
TRUMAN CAPOTEAnticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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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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The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
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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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I always write the end of everything first. I always write the last chapters of my books before I write the beginning. Then I go back to the beginning. I mean, it’s always nice to know where you’re going is my theory.
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There is nobody in the world that you can’t get if you really concentrate on it, if you really want them. You’ve got to want it to the exclusion of everything else.
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I just live one day at a time. That’s my new theory in life.
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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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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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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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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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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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A man who doesn’t dream is like a man who doesn’t sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.
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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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