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.

Truman Capote
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  1. You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving. - Amy Carmichael

  2. You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. - Robert Louis Stevenson

  3. I know what I have given you... I do not know what you have received. - Antonio Porchia

  4. Always have a willing hand to help someone, you might be the only one that does. - Roy T. Bennett

  5. Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it. - Marcus Aurelius

More Quotes By Truman Capote
  1. Never love a wild thing, Mr. Bell, ' Holly advised him. 'That was Doc's mistake. He was always lugging home wild things. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>A hawk with a hurt wing. One time it was a full-grown bobcat with a broken leg. But you can't give...

  2. You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.

  3. He loved her, he loved her, and until he'd loved her she had never minded being alone....

  4. Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

  5. Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.

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