Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
Love
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Quotes by Truman Capote
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Love, having no geography, knows no boundaries.
Love
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.
Wisdom
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.
Wisdom
Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.
Wisdom
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
Life
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.
Friendship
I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
Wisdom
That isn't writing at all, it's typing.
Wisdom
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.
Wisdom
Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
Wisdom
Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down.
Wisdom
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.
Education
Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.
Wisdom
Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town.
Wisdom
I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.
Wisdom
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Success
It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something.
Wisdom
I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.
Wisdom
Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
Wisdom
The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
Wisdom
I can see every monster as they come in.
Wisdom
My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.
Life
When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely.
Wisdom
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