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Truman Capote Quotes

Truman Capote quotes

American Novelist, Writer September 30, 1924 – August 25, 1984

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Truman Capote quote: "She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than..."
She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox. Truman Capote
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. Truman Capote
Truman Capote quote: "A beautiful day with the buoyancy of a bird."
A beautiful day with the buoyancy of a bird. Truman Capote
[Y]outh is hardly human: it can't be, for the young never believe they will die...especially would they never believe that death comes, and often, in forms other than the natural one. Truman Capote
Since each story presents its own technical problems, obviously one can't generalize about them on a two-times-two-equals-four basis. Finding the right form for your story is simply to realize the most natural way of telling the story. The test of whether or not a writer has defined the natural shape of his story is just this: After reading it, can you imagine it differently, or does it silence your imagination and seem to you absolute and final? As an orange is final. As an orange is... Truman Capote
Every day I woke up saying "If I die....", not realising how dead I was already, and only a memory tagging along with Delores and Pepe... Wherever they were: I grieved for Pepe, not because I'd lost him (yes, that a little), but because in the end I knew Delores would find him, too: it is easy to escape daylight, but night is inevitable, and dreams are the giant cage. Truman Capote
Truman Capote quote: "My preferred pastimes are conversation, reading, travel and..."
My preferred pastimes are conversation, reading, travel and writing, in that order. Truman Capote
Truman Capote quote: "Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. Truman Capote
Truman Capote quote: "Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavour."
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavour. Truman Capote
But, my dear, so few things are fulfilled: what are most lives but a series of incompleted episodes? 'We work in the dark, we do what we can, we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task...' It is wanting to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something. Truman Capote
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. Truman Capote
Truman Capote quote: "would you reach in the drawer there and give me my purse. A..."
would you reach in the drawer there and give me my purse. A girl doesn't read this sort of thing without her lipstick. Truman Capote
But there were moments when she played songs that made you wonder where she learned them, where indeed she came from. Harsh-tender wandering tunes with words that smacked of pinewoods or prairie. One went: Don’t wanna sleep, Don’t wanna die, Just wanna go a-travelin’ through the pastures of the sky; and this one seemed to gratify her the most, for often she continued it long after her hair hard dried, after the sun had gone and there were lighted windows in the dusk. Truman Capote
Snow-quiet, sleep-silent, only the fun-fire faraway songsinging of children; and the room was blue with cold, colder than the cold of fairytales: lie down my heart among the igloo flowers of snow. Truman Capote
Truman Capote quote: "A girl doesn't read this sort of thing without her lipstick."..."
A girl doesn't read this sort of thing without her lipstick." -Holly Golightly Truman Capote

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