More from Truman Capote

  1. 'Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.'
  2. 'Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence …
  3. '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…
  4. '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 …
  5. 'Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavour.'
  6. 'Fame is only good for one thing-they will cash your check in a small town.'
  7. 'I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.'
  8. 'It was ideal apple-eating weather; the whitest sunlight descended from the purest sky, and an easterly wind rustled, without ripping loose…

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