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Quotes by Truman Capote

US author (1924 - 1984)

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

In California everyone goes to a therapist, is a therapist, or is a therapist going to a therapist.

Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.

It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

I conceived the whole adventure as a short comic -nonfiction novel- the first. That book was an important event for me. While writing it, I realized I just might have found a solution to what had always been my greatest creative quandary. I wanted to produce a journalistic novel, something on a large scale that would have the credibility of fact, the immediacy of film, the depth and freedom of prose, and the precision of poetry.