It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
TRUMAN CAPOTEMost people don’t find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don’t even know they have great talent.
More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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The wind is us– it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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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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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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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 the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something
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The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman, because he’ll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel.
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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.
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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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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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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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