Truman Capote Quotes

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  Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

  Truman Capote

  Topics in Failure, Success, Wisdom

  Tags in Flavor, Gives

• Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavour.

  Truman Capote

  Topics in Success

• Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.

  Truman Capote

  Topics in Fear

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

  Truman Capote

  Topics in Love

• The better the actor the more stupid he is.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

• The morals of a baboon and the guts of a butterfly.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

• The chic old blue-haired ladies…chew in mute chandeliered isolation.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

• Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.

  Truman Capote

  Topics in Uncategorized

• Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad, and then made an even more terrifying discovery—the difference between very good writing and true art: it is subtle, but savage.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

• Buddy, it’s fruitcake weather!

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  Topics in Uncategorized

• Even an attorney of modest talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants  play interminably.

  Truman Capote

  Topics in Uncategorized

• None of these people have anything interesting to say, and none of them can write, not even Mr Kerouac. What they do isn’t writing at all—it’s typing.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

• Other Voices, Other Rooms.

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

  Truman Capote

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Music, Poetry

• 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.

  Truman Capote

  Topics in Friendship

  Tags in Full-Time, Many
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  Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.

  Truman Capote

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hardly, Breathe, Books

• If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there’s no point in it. . . . for me, every act of art is the act of solving a mystery.

  Truman Capote

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Writing, Books

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

  Truman Capote

  Topics in Humor

  Tags in Shotgun, Noisy

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

  Truman Capote

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Scissors, Pencil, Writing

Truman Capote (40)

Birth:	30th September, 1924
Death:	25th August, 1984
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Artist, Memoirist, Novelist, Playwright, Screenwriter, Writer

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