Truman Capote Quotes

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

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  Tags in Finishing, Writing

• The true beloveds of this world are in their lover’s eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends, a child’s Sunday, lost voices, one’s favorite suit, autumn and all seasons, memory, yes, it being the earth and water of existence, memory.

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  Topics in Art, Education, Honesty, Love, Memory

  Tags in Friends, School, Darkness

• I can see every monster as they come in.

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  Tags in See, Come

• All literature is gossip.

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  Tags in Gossip, Literature

• 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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  Topics in Art

  Tags in Writers And Writing, Law

• My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Unnecessarily, Regret

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Whip, Intended

• 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 would be true from beginning to end.

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  Tags in Precisely, Idea

• It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something.

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  Tags in Something

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

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  Tags in Box, Entire, Like

• Mick Jagger is about as s*xy as a pissing toad.

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  Tags in Jagger, Toad

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

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Act, Good, Play

• I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Sixteen, Though

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

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  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Chain

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Says, Care

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Writing, Worth

• 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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  Tags in Marrow, Did

• The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.

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  Tags in Malice, Quietness

• Fame is only good for one thing – they will cash your check in a small town.

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  Tags in Cash, Small Town

• That’s not writing, that’s typing.

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  Tags in Writers And 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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