Truman Capote /Truman Streckfus Persons/ quotes Born: 09/30/1924 Died: 08/26/1984 Country: usa

• Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably. (Truman Capote) [attorney/abstinence/talent/system]
• Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life. (Truman Capote) [love/love/nature/life]
• All literature is gossip. (Truman Capote) [literature]
• Fame is only good for one thing-they will cash your check in a small town. (Truman Capote) [fame/willpower]
• I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil. (Truman Capote) [more]
• Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. (Truman Capote) [life]
• 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. (Truman Capote)
• Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town. (Truman Capote)
• Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it. (Truman Capote)
• 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. (Truman Capote)
• I can see every monster as they come in. (Truman Capote)
• I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true. (Truman Capote)
• 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. (Truman Capote)
• I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about. (Truman Capote)
• I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years. (Truman Capote)
• It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something. (Truman Capote)
• Mick Jagger is about as sexy as a pissing toad. (Truman Capote)
• My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely. (Truman Capote)
• 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)
• Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe. (Truman Capote)
• That isn't writing at all, it's typing. (Truman Capote)
• The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply. (Truman Capote)
• To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make. (Truman Capote)
• Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go. (Truman Capote)
• When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely. (Truman Capote)
• 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. (Truman Capote)
• 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. (Truman Capote)
• Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. (Truman Capote)

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