Truman Capote Quotes

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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.
• Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
• 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…
• To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.
• Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
• Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
• I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.
• 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…
• Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.
• 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…
• Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
• Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town.
• I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
• Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.
• I can see every monster as they come in.
• All literature is gossip.
• When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely.
• Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
• The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
• I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it…

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