Quote #13

'I always felt that nobody was going to understand me, going to understand what I felt about things. I guess that is why I started to write. At least on paper I could put down what I thought.'

More from Truman Capote

  1. 'Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavour.'
  2. 'Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.'
  3. 'I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.'
  4. 'All literature is gossip.'
  5. 'The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection'
  6. 'Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence …
  7. 'More tears are shed for answered prayers than for unanswered ones.' (The dedication in his last, unfinished work)
  8. '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 …

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