All Truman Capote Quotes
Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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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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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.
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Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town.
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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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No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. It scraped me right down to the marrow of my bones. It nearly killed me. I think, in a way, it did kill me.
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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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My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.
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