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Truman Capote
Truman Capote
American Novelist
Born: Sep 30, 1924
Died: Aug 25, 1984
About Good Like Me Writing You
Related authors: Elie Wiesel Ernest Hemingway H. P. Lovecraft James Baldwin John Updike Leo Rosten Nathaniel Hawthorne Richard Bach
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. Truman Capote
Success Failure Gives Flavor
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. Truman Capote
Good Conversation Few Meet Scarcity Seldom Talkers Due Dialogue Intelligent Conversations Why Two Monologue
I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true. Truman Capote
Me Care Long Says About True dont Care Anybody
Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go. Truman Capote
Eating Entire Like Venice Box Go Chocolate
Love, having no geography, knows no boundaries. Truman Capote
Love No Boundaries Having Boundaries Knows Geography
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make. Truman Capote
Music Me Writing Words Pleasure About Make Greatest Greatest Pleasure Inner
It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something. Truman Capote
God Believe Something Know Witchcraft Makes Least End Want Us
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. Truman Capote
Me Will Down Think Cold Took Way Out Marrow No-One Know Blood Did Ever Nearly Right Bones
I can see every monster as they come in. Truman Capote
Every Monster See Come
I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil. Truman Capote
Communication Believe Pencil More Scissors Than
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. Truman Capote
Word Be True Single Big Beginning Every Would Would-Be True Idea Like Got Doing End Precisely Difference Really Novel Serious
Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it. Truman Capote
You Book Took Back Out Finishing Like Yard Child Just Shot
Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe. Truman Capote
Good Book Sometimes Think How Breathe Hardly
I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about. Truman Capote
Writing Worth Those TV About Like Talk Things

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