Truman Capote Quotes

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Truman Capote

Profession : Novelist

Birth : September 30, 1924

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

Truman Capote

Love, having no geography, knows no boundaries.

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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

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When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely.

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Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.

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

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I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.

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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.

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All literature is gossip.

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Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.

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I can see every monster as they come in.

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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.

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

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That isn't writing at all, it's typing.

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No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. It scraped me right down to the marrow of my bones. It nearly killed me. I think, in a way, it did kill me.

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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.

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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.

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I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about.

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