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All Quotes by author - Truman Capote
" 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. "
Intelligent
Good
Conversation
" All literature is gossip. "
Gossip
Literature
" Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. "
Gives
Success
Flavor
" Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town. "
Good
Cash
Fame
" Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it. "
Like
Back
Book
" 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. "
Pretty
Friends
Just
" I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil. "
Communication
Pencil
Believe
" I can see every monster as they come in. "
Monster
See
Come
" I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true. "
Anybody
Me
True
" I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it would be true from beginning to end. "
End
Be True
Doing
" I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about. "
TV
Like
Writing
" It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something. "
End
Us
God
" I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years. "
Though
Sixteen
Years
" Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. "
Play
Third
Act
" Love, having no geography, knows no boundaries. "
Boundaries
Geography
Love
" Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life. "
Love
Chain
Life
" My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely. "
Regret
Major
Lonely
" 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. "
Down
Me
Know
" Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe. "
Think
Book
Good
" That isn't writing at all, it's typing. "
Writing
Typing
" The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply. "
His
Quietness
Reply
" To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make. "
Music
Pleasure
Words
" Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go. "
Venice
Travel
Go
" Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy. "
Noisy
About
Just
" When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely. "
Hands
God
Gift
" 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. "
Light
Music
Perspective
" 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. "
Writing
Art
Bad
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