“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
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**Truman Capote** was an American writer, many of whose short stories, novels, plays, and nonfiction are recognized literary classics, including the novella *Breakfast at Tiffany's* (1958) and *In Cold Blood* (1965), which he labeled a "nonfiction novel".
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“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
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“That's not writing, that's typing.”
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“You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.”
“He loved her, he loved her, and until he'd loved her she had never minded being alone....”
“Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.”
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“all his prayers of the past had been simple concrete requests: God, give me a bicycle, a knife with seven blades, a box of oil paints. Only how, how, could you say something so indefinite, s...”
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“I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart. Which isn't being pious. Just practical. Cancer may cool you, but the other's sure to.”
“The blame of course belonged to Clyde, who just was not much given to talk. Also, he seemed very little curious himself: Grady, alarmed sometimes by the meagerness of his inquiries and the i...”
“You cold or something?' he said. She strained against him; she wanted to pass clear through him: 'It's a chill, it's nothing'; and then, pushing a little away: 'Say you love me.' I said it.'...”
“To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.”
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“Once a thing is set to happen, all you can do is hope it won't. Or will-depending. As long as you live, there’s always something waiting, and even if it’s bad, and you know it's bad, what ca...”
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“You can't blame a writer for what the characters say.”
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“Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.”
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“I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.”
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“It's a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something down out of them.”
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“That isn't writing at all, it's typing.”
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“If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there's no point in it. . . . for me, every act of art is the act of solving a mystery.”
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“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavour.”
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“Love, having no geography, knows no boundaries.”
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“Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.”
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