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Truman Capote Quotes: 15

Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down.
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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.
Love, having no geography, knows no boundaries.
He loved her, he loved her, and until he'd loved her she had never minded being alone....
Summer Crossing
You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.
Breakfast at Tiffany's
You can't blame a writer for what the characters say.
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.
Truman Capote: Conversations
Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
Most of life is so dull it is not worth discussing, and it is dull at all ages. When we change our brand of cigarette, move to a new neighborhood, subscribe to a different newspaper, fall in and out of love, we are protesting in ways both frivolous and deep against the not to be diluted dullness of day-to-day living.
Summer Crossing
I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart. Which isn't being pious. Just practical. Cancer may cool you, but the other's sure to.
Breakfast at Tiffany's
all his prayers of the past had been simple concrete requests: God, give me a bicycle, a knife with seven blades, a box of oil paints. Only how, how, could you say something so indefinite, so meaningless as this: God, let me be loved.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavour.