Best Quotes by Truman Capote (Top 10)
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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You call yourself a free spirit, a "wild thing," and you're terrified somebody's gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it's not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somali-land. It's wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself.
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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Home is where you feel at home. I'm still looking.
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I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.
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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 brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface: and why not? Any love is natural and beautiful that lies within a person's nature; only hypocrites would hold a man responsible for what he loves, emotional illiterates and those of righteous envy, who, in their agitated concern, mistake so frequently the arrow pointing to heaven for the one that leads to hell.
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I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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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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More Truman Capote Quotes
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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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What we want most is to be held...and told..that everything (everything is a funny thing, is baby milk and papa's eyes, is roaring logs on a cold morning, is hoot owls and the boy who makes you cry after school, is mama's long hair, is being afraid and twisted faces on the bedroom wall)...is going to be alright.
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I am always drawn back to places where I have lived, the houses and their neighborhoods.
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Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.
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All literature is gossip.
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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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Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.
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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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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a Flamingo.
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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town.
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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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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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That isn't writing at all, it's typing.
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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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In California everyone goes to a therapist, is a therapist, or is a therapist going to a therapist.
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I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about.
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