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"24 Truman Capote Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 30 September 1924. Died: 25 August 1984 | Novelist | Screenwriter | Playwright | Actor |

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

Failure Condiment Gives success Its flavor
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.

Anyone Who ever Gave you Confidence
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More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.

More tears Answered prayer Unanswered ones
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there
Better Look The sky Live there
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You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.

Love somebody Stranger Friend
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You can't blame a writer for what the characters say.

Can't blame Writer Characters say
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.

Can't give Your heart Wild thing
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I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.

Don't care What Anybody says True
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I loved her enough to forget myself, my self pitying despairs, and be content that something she thought happy was going to happen.

Loved her Forget myself Self pitying Be content
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It is no shame to have a dirty face- the shame comes when you keep it dirty.

No shame Have Dirty face Comes
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There is only one unpardonable sin--deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.

One unpardonable Sin Deliberate cruelty Forgiven
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As long as you live, there's always something waiting; and even if it's bad, and you know it's bad, what can you do? You can't stop living.

You live Something waiting Bad Stop living
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Love, having no geography, knows no boundaries.

Love No geography Knows No boundaries
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Maybe the older you grow and the less easy it is to put thought into action, maybe that’s why it gets all locked up in your head and becomes a burden.

The older You grow Into action Locked up heard
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Imagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in.

Imagination Open Any door Key
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It's bad enough in life to do without something YOU want; but confound it, what gets my goat is not being able to give somebody something you want THEM to have.

Life Without something Confound it My goat
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Our real fears are the sounds of footsteps walking in the corridors of our minds, and the anxieties, the phantom floating, they create

Real fear Sounds Footsteps Walking
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I despise people who can't control themselves.

Despise people Can't control Themselves
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Have you never heard what the wise man say : all of the future exists in the past.

Have you Wise man Future exists The past
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A disquieting loneliness came into my life, but it induced no hunger for friends of longer acquaintance: they seemed now like a salt-free, sugarless diet.

Disquieting loneliness My life No hunger Friends
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I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart. Which isn't being pious. Just practical. Cancer may cool you, but the other's sure to.

Have cancer Dishonest heart Just practical
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?

The dead Lonesome Living
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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.

The problem Living outside Law Have
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.

Thought The future Spoke Past
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Truman Capote Quotes & Sayings