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“More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.”
― Truman Capote, Answered Prayers

“You know the days when you get the mean reds?
Paul Varjak: The mean reds. You mean like the blues?
Holly Golightly: No. The blues are because you’re getting fat, and maybe it’s been raining too long. You’re just sad, that’s all. The mean reds are horrible. Suddenly you’re afraid, and you don’t know what you’re afraid of. Do you ever get that feeling?”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

“Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

“I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.”
― Truman Capote

“Don't wanna sleep, don't wanna die, just wanna go a-travellin' through the pastures of the sky”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

“there is only one unpardonable sin--deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.”
― Truman Capote, The Thanksgiving Visitor

“You're wonderful. Unique. I love you.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

“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.”
― Truman Capote, In Cold Blood

“There were hints of sunrise on the rim of the sky, yet it was still dark, and the traces of morning color were like goldfish swimming in ink.”
― Truman Capote, The Muses Are Heard

“our real fears are the sounds of footsteps walking in the corridors of our minds, and the anxieties, the phantom floatings, they create.”
― Truman Capote

“Have you never heard what the wise man say : all of the future exists in the past.”
― Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms

“You don't run out on people; you run out on yourself.”
― Truman Capote, Summer Crossing

“Are the dead as lonesome as the living?”
― Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms

“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.”
― Truman Capote

“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”
― Colette

“In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.”
― Colette

“Total absence of humor renders life impossible.”
― Colette, Chance Acquaintances and Julie de Carneilhan

“Don't you think, that there are very few men who know, without raising their voice or changing their tone, to say...what has to be said?”
― Colette

“I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay

“My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends—
It gives a lovely light!”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay, A Few Figs from Thistles

“It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay

“I love humanity but I hate people.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay

“I know I am but summer to your heart,
And not the full four seasons of the year;
And you must welcome from another part
Such noble moods as are not mine, my dear.
No gracious weight of golden fruits to sell
Have I, nor any wise and wintry thing;
And I have loved you all too long and well
To carry still the high sweet breast of Spring.
Wherefore I say: O love, as summer goes,
I must be gone, steal forth with silent drums,
That you may hail anew the bird and rose
When I come back to you, as summer comes.
Else will you seek, at some not distant time,
Even your summer in another clime.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay, Collected Poems

“What should I be
but just what I am?”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay

“No one but Night, with tears on her dark face, watches beside me in this windy place.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay

“You are loved. If so, what else matters?”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul