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.
TRUMAN CAPOTEAnticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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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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Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
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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 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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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.
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Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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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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A boy has to peddle his book.
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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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