Truman Capote Quotes

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

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  Life, Birthday, Humorous

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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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• 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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  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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• 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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• I remember things the way they should have been.

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  Should Have, Way, Remember

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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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• 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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• 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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• It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.

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  Envy, Way, Persons

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

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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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• You can't blame a writer for what the characters say.

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  Writing, Character, Fearless

  Lawrence Grobel, Truman Capote (1985). “Conversations with Capote”, E P Dutton

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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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• Life is difficult enough without Meryl Streep movies.

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  Life Is, Enough, Difficult

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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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• There were hints of sunrise on the rim of the sky, yet it was still dark, and the traces of morning color were like goldfish swimming in ink.

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  Morning, Dark, Swimming

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• The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface: and why not? Any love is natural and beautiful that lies within a person's nature; only hypocrites would hold a man responsible for what he loves, emotional illiterates and those of righteous envy, who, in their agitated concern, mistake so frequently the arrow pointing to heaven for the one that leads to hell.

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  Love, Beautiful, Dream

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

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• And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.

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  Rain, Moments, Breaths

  Truman Capote (2007). “Other Voices, Other Rooms”, p.62, Vintage

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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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• It takes a lot of bad writing to get to a little good writing.

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  Writing, Littles, Bad Writing

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