Did you ever, in that wonderland wilderness of adolesence [sic] ever, quite unexpectedly, see something, a dusk sky, a wild bird, a landscape, so exquisite terror touched you at the bone? And you are afraid, terribly afraid the smallest movement, a leaf, say, turning in the wind, will shatter all? That is, I think, the way love is, or should be: one lives in beautiful terror.
I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true. - Truman Capote
I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.
- Truman Capote
Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot. - Truman Capote
Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet. - Truman Capote
A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
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 ou… - Truman Capote
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 ou…
If you weren't here, if you could be anywhere you wanted to be, doing anything you wanted to do, where would you be and what would you be doing? - Truman Capote
If you weren't here, if you could be anywhere you wanted to be, doing anything you wanted to do, where would you be and what would you be doing?
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. - Truman Capote
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
there is only one unpardonable sin--deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven. - Truman Capote
there is only one unpardonable sin--deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
It takes a lot of bad writing to get to a little good writing. - Truman Capote
It takes a lot of bad writing to get to a little good writing.
The brain may take advice, but not the heart. - Truman Capote
The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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