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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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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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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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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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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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.
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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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How do I look so young? Quite simple: a complete vegetable diet, 12 hours sleep a night, and lots and lots of make-up.
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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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Reading dreams. That’s what started her walking down the road. Every day she’d walk a little further: a mile, and come home. Two miles, and come home. One day she just kept on.
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