Truman Capote Quotes

Truman Capote (27)

Birth:	30th September, 1924
Death:	25th August, 1984
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Artist, Memoirist, Novelist, Playwright, Screenwriter, Writer

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• Well, I’m about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.

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  Topics in Humor

  Tags in Shotgun, Noisy

• If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there’s no point in it. . . . for me, every act of art is the act of solving a mystery.

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

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

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

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  Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.

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  Tags in Hardly, Breathe

• The true beloveds of this world are in their lover’s eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends, a child’s Sunday, lost voices, one’s favorite suit, autumn and all seasons, memory, yes, it being the earth and water of existence, memory.

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  Topics in Art, Education, Honesty, Love, Memory

  Tags in Friends, School, Darkness

• I can see every monster as they come in.

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  Tags in See, Come

• All literature is gossip.

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• 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.

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  Topics in Art

  Tags in Writers And Writing, Law

• My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.

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  Tags in Unnecessarily, Regret

• 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.

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  Tags in Full-Time, Many

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

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  Tags in Whip, Intended

• 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.

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  Tags in Precisely, Idea

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

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• Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.

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  Tags in Box, Entire, Like

• Mick Jagger is about as s*xy as a pissing toad.

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  Tags in Jagger, Toad

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

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Act, Good, Play

• I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.

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  Tags in Sixteen, Though

• Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

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