Truman Capote Quotes

"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 in Conversation quotes.

"Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act."
-Truman Capote in Life quotes.

"Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy."
-Truman Capote

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

"The good thing about masturbation is that you don't have to dress up for it."
-Truman Capote

"People who are having a love-sex relationship are continuously lying to each other because the very nature of the relationship demands that they do, because you have to make a love object of this person, which means that you editorialize about them. You cut out what you don't want to see, you add this if it isn't there. And so therefore you're building a lie."
-Truman Capote

"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. "
-Truman Capote

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

"In California everyone goes to a therapist, is a therapist, or is a therapist going to a therapist."
-Truman Capote