21 Quotations by Truman Capote
- 1. A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due t ...
- 2. All literature is gossip.
- 3. Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals ...
- 4. Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
- 5. Fame is only good for one thing -- they will cash your check in a small town.
- 6. Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
- 7. Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have ...
- 8. Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call o ...
- 9. I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
- 10. I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single ...
- 11. I've always seen myself as a winner, even as a kid. If I hadn't, I just might have gone down the dra ...
- 12. In California everyone goes to a therapist, is a therapist, or is a therapist going to a therapist.
- 13. It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
- 14. Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
- 15. Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
- 16. Mick Jagger moves like a parody between a majorette girl and Fred Astaire.
- 17. Most contemporary novelists, especially the American and the French, are too subjective, mesmerized ...
- 18. People who are having a love-sex relationship are continuously lying to each other because the very ...
- 19. She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red ...
- 20. Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.
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