Truman Capote Quotes

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Quotes by Truman Capote

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• "In California, you lose a point off your IQ every year."

• "The good thing about masturbation is that you don't have to dress up for it."

• "As everyone knows, a fag is a homosexual gentleman who has just left the room."

• "More tears are shed for answered prayers than for unanswered ones."

• "The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection. "

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

• "Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavour."

• "I always felt that nobody was going to understand me, going to understand what I felt about things. I guess that is why I started to write. At least on paper I could put down what I thought."

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• "To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make."

• "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."

• "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."

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

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

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

• "When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely."

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

• "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."

Truman Capote Quotes Videos

• Google Video: Truman Capote Writes (Time 13:15)
• YouTube: Capote Trailer (Time 02:11)
• YouTube: Truman Capote/Andy Warhol with the Rolling Stones (Time 00:23)
• YouTube: Infamous (Time 02:40)

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