Truman Capote Quotes

Truman Capote was an American short story author, novelist and playwright, whose works are now considered to be classics. Capote had a unique presence with his short frame, loud high pitched voice and unconventional style of dress. He was often the life of the party and could frequently be seen mingling with talented and powerful people. Towards the end of his life Capote battled drug problems and spent time in and out of rehab. There were also many incidents influenced by drugs including an on air drunken rant and a hallucinatory seizure. Capote died August 25, 1984 from liver disease.

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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."