American - Novelist | September 30, 1924 - August 25, 1984
Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
Truman Capote
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It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something.
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I can see every monster as they come in.
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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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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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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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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Love, having no geography, knows no boundaries.
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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
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All literature is gossip.
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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.
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