Truman Capote Quotes

• Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavour.

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

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

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• The better the actor the more stupid he is.

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

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

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

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

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• Buddy, it’s fruitcake weather!

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• 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.

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• 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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• Other Voices, Other Rooms.

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• 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.

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

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

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

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

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