Truman Capote Short Quotes

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

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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
Spoken by the character Holly Golightly

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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavour.

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Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun—and just as noisy.

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I never write anything that I don't think will be paid for.

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Great fury, like great whiskey, requires long fermentation.

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This island, floating in river water like a diamond iceberg.

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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.

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Leave it to me: I'm always top banana in the shock department.

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

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We don't belong to each other: he's an independent, and so am I.

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He looks like a man who has just swallowed an entire human being.

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Actually, I think friendship and love are exactly the same thing.

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Anyone who is consistently consistent has a head made of biscuit.

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I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.
Also attributed to Dorothy Parker

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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.

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Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs at one go.

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The main thing history teaches us that history teaches us—nothing.

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Oh, I adore to cook. It makes me feel so mindless in a worthwhile way.

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Brazil was beastly but Buenos Aires the best. Not Tiffany's, but almost.

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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.

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For the last decade or so I prefer writers I've already read. Proven wine.

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I've tried to believe, but I don't, I can't, and there's no use pretending.

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It is no shame to have a dirty face- the shame comes when you keep it dirty.

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If you can't be friends with a lover, then forget it. It's not going to work.

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I'll never get used to anything. Anybody that does they might as well be dead.

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Never trust a nigger: their minds and hair are full of kinks in equal measure.

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A resident of over a hundred years in so narrow a world deserved higher homage.

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It's such a useless thing for a man to want to be: the p-p-president of Brazil.

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There is only one unpardonable sin—deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.

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