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Truman Capote Quotes

Truman Capote quotes about understanding

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

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All writing, all art, is an act of faith. If one tries to contribute to human understanding, how can that be called decadent? It’s like saying a declaration of love is an act of decadence. Any work of art, provide it springs from a sincere motivation to further understanding between people, is an act of faith and therefore is an act of love. Truman Capote
Those final weeks, spanning end of summer and the beginning of another autumn, are blurred in memory, perhaps because our understanding of each other had reached that sweet depth where two people communicate more often in silence than in words: an affectionate quietness replaces the tensions, the unrelaxed chatter and chasing about that produce a friendship’s more showy, more, in the surface sense, dramatic moments. Truman Capote
I well understand why analysts demand high payment, for what can be more tedious than listening to another person recount his dreams? Truman Capote
You don't understand. You've never hated anybody. No, I never have. We're allotted just so much time on earth, and I wouldn't want the Lord to see me wasting mine in any such manner. Truman Capote
Truman Capote quote: "We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and..."
We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why. Truman Capote
Truman Capote quote: "Shoot, boy, the country's just fulla folks what knows..."
Shoot, boy, the country's just fulla folks what knows everything, and don't understand nothing, just fullofem. Truman Capote
Truman Capote quote: "I couldn't understand a sense of unease that multiplied until..."
I couldn't understand a sense of unease that multiplied until I could hear my heart beating. Truman Capote

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