Quotes from: Truman Capote

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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor

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I don’t want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together

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You call yourself a free spirit, a “wild thing,” and you’re terrified somebody’s gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you’re already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it’s not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somali-land. It’s wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself

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More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones

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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot

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You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say

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The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love, having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface: and why not? any love is natural and beautiful that lies within a person’s nature; only hypocrites would hold a man responsible for what he loves, emotional illiterates and those of righteous envy, who, in their agitated concern, mistake so frequently the arrow pointing to heaven for the one that leads to hell

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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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Good luck and believe me, dearest Doc – it’s better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear

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I’m very scared, Buster. Yes, at last. Because it could go on forever. Not knowing what’s yours until you’ve thrown it away