Truman Capote Quotes

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  Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.

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  Confidence, Breakfast, Breakfast At Tiffanys

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.73, Vintage

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  Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Truman Capote, M. Thomas Inge (1987). “Truman Capote: Conversations”, p.189, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• All human life has its seasons and cycles, and no one's personal chaos can be permanent. Winter, after all, gives way to spring and summer, though sometimes when branches stay dark and the earth cracks with ice, one thinks they will never come, that spring, and that summer, but they do, and always.

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  Summer, Spring, Dark

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• I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.

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  Careers, Gossip, Long

  Quoted in David Frost The Americans (1970),'When Does A Writer Become A Star'.

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  The brain may take advice, but not the heart.

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  Heart, Advice, Brain

  Truman Capote (2007). “Other Voices, Other Rooms”, p.124, Vintage

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

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  Life, Birthday, Humorous

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• there is only one unpardonable sin--deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.

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  Sin, Cruelty, Forgiven

  Truman Capote (1996). “A Christmas memory: One Christmas ;& The Thanksgiving visitor”, Random House, Inc.

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• 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.

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  Communication, Intelligent, Talking

  "Leadership Divided: What Emerging Leaders Need and What You Might Be Missing". Book by Ron A. Carucci, September 30, 2006.

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• Everybody has to feel superior to somebody," she said. "But it's customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.

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  Littles, Privilege, Proof

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.62, Vintage

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• A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.

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  Dream, Men, Sweat

  Truman Capote (2012). “The Grass Harp”, p.98, Vintage

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  If you weren't here, if you could be anywhere you wanted to be, doing anything you wanted to do, where would you be and what would you be doing?

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  Wanted, Ifs

  Source: capote.wordpress.com

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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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  Music, Writing, Law

  1974 Interview in Paris Review, Summer.

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• The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.

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  Law, Problem, Protection

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• Actually, I think friendship and love are exactly the same thing.

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  Thinking, Love And Friendship, And Love

  Truman Capote, M. Thomas Inge (1987). “Truman Capote: Conversations”, p.176, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.

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  Inspirational, Wise, Past

  "Other Voices, Other Rooms".

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• I remember things the way they should have been.

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  Should Have, Way, Remember

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• Imagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in.

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  Inspirational, Keys, Doors

  Truman Capote (2001). “In Cold Blood”, p.92, Vintage

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• He loved her, he loved her, and until he'd loved her she had never minded being alone.

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  Love

  Truman Capote (2012). “Summer Crossing: A Novel”, p.98, Modern Library

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• Life is difficult enough without Meryl Streep movies.

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  Life Is, Enough, Difficult

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• You call yourself a free spirit, a "wild thing," and you're terrified somebody's gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it's not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somali-land. It's wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself.

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  Running, Baby, Texas

  "Fictional character: Paul 'Fred' Varjak". "Breakfast at Tiffany's", 1961.

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

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  Book, Reading, Thinking

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• It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.

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  Funny, Years, California

  Lawrence Grobel, Truman Capote (1986). “Conversations with Capote”, Plume

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• Past certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder; it is best done when one is a child; after that, and if you are lucky, you will find a bridge of childhood and walk across it.

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  Children, Past, Bridges

  "Local Color". Book by Truman Capote, 1950.

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• Are the dead as lonesome as the living?

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  Lonesome

  Truman Capote (2007). “Other Voices, Other Rooms”, p.173, Vintage

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• Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.

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  Long, Whiskey, Whisky

  1980 Music for Chameleons,'Handcarved Coffins'.

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