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When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely.
Truman Capote
God
Self
Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.
Truman Capote
Eating
Venice
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.
Truman Capote
Music
Pleasure
Words
Writing
The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
Truman Capote
Malice
That isn't writing at all, it's typing.
Truman Capote
Writing
No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. It scraped me right down to the marrow of my bones. It nearly killed me. I think, in a way, it did kill me.
Truman Capote
Blood
Right
Will
My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.
Truman Capote
Life
Childhood
Lonely
Regret
Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
Truman Capote
Life
Love
Nature
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
Truman Capote
Life
Act
Play
It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something.
Truman Capote
God
End
Want
Witchcraft
I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.
Truman Capote
Years
I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about.
Truman Capote
Talk
Worth
Writing
All literature is gossip.
Truman Capote
Gossip
Literature
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Truman Capote
Success
Failure
Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town.
Truman Capote
Fame
Will