01c. 1954 ADVery few authors, especially the unpublished, can resist an invitation to read aloud.Truman Capote / quote ↗
02c. 1954 ADA 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 / quote ↗
03c. 1954 ADThe most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman because he'll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel.Truman Capote / quote ↗
04c. 1954 ADVenice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.Truman Capote / quote ↗
05c. 1954 ADIn California everyone goes to a therapist is a therapist or is a therapist going to a therapist.Truman Capote / quote ↗
06c. 1954 ADI've always seen myself as a winner even as a kid. If I hadn't I just might have gone down the drain a couple of times. I've got something inside of me peasantlike and stubborn and I'm in it 'til the end of the race.Truman Capote / quote ↗
08c. 1954 ADIt was as if I were an oyster and somebody forced a grain of sand into my shell -- a grain of sand that I didn't know was there and didn't particularly welcome. Then a pearl started forming around the grain and it irritated me, made me angry, tortured me sometimes. But the oyster can't help becoming obsessed with the pearl.Truman Capote / quote ↗
09c. 1954 ADI tell you, my dear, Narcissus was no egoist… he was merely another of us who, in our unshatterable isolation, recognized, on seeing his reflection, the one beautiful comrade, the only inseparable love… poor Narcissus, possibly the only human who was ever honest on this point.Truman Capote / quote ↗
12c. 1954 ADWriting 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 / quote ↗
13c. 1954 ADTo me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.Truman Capote / quote ↗
14c. 1954 ADFame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town.Truman Capote / quote ↗
15c. 1954 ADWhen God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely.Truman Capote / quote ↗
16c. 1954 ADWriting 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 / quote ↗
