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, Why, Talkers, Scarcity
Love, having no geography, knows no boundaries.
- Truman Capote
Love, Geography, Having, No Boundaries
Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.
- Truman Capote
Travel, Venice, Like, Entire
I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.
- Truman Capote
Lovely, Though, Then, Sixteen
Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.
- Truman Capote
Well, About, Shotgun, Noisy
Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
- Truman Capote
Love, Nature, Chain, Love Is
Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
- Truman Capote
Think, How, I Think, Hardly
The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
- Truman Capote
Tone, His, Malice, Quietness
Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
- Truman Capote
Learn, Born, Laws, Rearrange
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
Art, Terrifying, Stopped, Whip
When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely.
- Truman Capote
Gift, Hands, Intended, Whip
I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
- Truman Capote
Communication, Scissors, I Believe
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
Beginning, Doing, Big, Novel
Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town.
- Truman Capote
Small, Will, Town, Cash
That isn't writing at all, it's typing.
- Truman Capote
Writing, Typing
My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.
- Truman Capote
Childhood, Regret, Major, Unnecessarily
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
Think, I Think, Took, Marrow
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
- Truman Capote
Success, Failure, Gives, Flavor
All literature is gossip.
- Truman Capote
Literature, Gossip
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.
- Truman Capote
Music, Greatest Pleasure, Inner
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
- Truman Capote
Life, Play, Badly, Written
Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.
- Truman Capote
Pretty, Full-Time, Somebody
Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
- Truman Capote
Finishing, Yard, Took, Child
I can see every monster as they come in.
- Truman Capote
See, Come, Every, Monster
It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something.
- Truman Capote
Want, Makes, Least, Witchcraft
I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about.
- Truman Capote
Writing, Like, TV, Worth
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