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Truman Capote Quotes

«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.»
«Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.»
«The good thing about masturbation is that you don't have to dress up for it»
«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.»
Author: Truman Capote (Novelist, Playwright, Writer) | About: Life | Keywords: badly, moderately
«Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.»
Author: Truman Capote (Novelist, Playwright, Writer) | About: Books | Keywords: finishing, out in, shot, took, yard
«It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year»
«Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.»
«People who are having a love-sex relationship are continuously lying to each other because the very nature of the relationship demands that they do, because you have to make a love object of this person, which means that you editorialize about them. You cut out what you don't want to see, you add this if it isn't there. And so therefore you're building a lie.»

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