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Mar 9, 2021 · Here are some of the best Truman Capote quotes we hope you’ll enjoy, including his iconic line: "Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor." - Truman Capote. 1. “A 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. 2.
- “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” ― Truman Capote.
- “Never love a wild thing, Mr. Bell,' Holly advised him. ' That was Doc's mistake. He was always lugging home wild things. A hawk with a hurt wing. One time it was a full-grown bobcat with a broken leg.
- “You call yourself a free spirit, a "wild thing," and you're terrified somebody's gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself.
- “It may be normal, darling; but I'd rather be natural.” ― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories.
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- Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. Truman Capote. Inspirational, Motivational, Positive.
- The brain may take advice, but not the heart. Truman Capote. Heart, Advice, Brain.
- Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot. Truman Capote. Confidence, Breakfast, Breakfast At Tiffanys.
- All human life has its seasons and cycles, and no one's personal chaos can be permanent. Winter, after all, gives way to spring and summer, though sometimes when branches stay dark and the earth cracks with ice, one thinks they will never come, that spring, and that summer, but they do, and always.
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- Capote was not his real surname. Truman Capote was born on 30 September 1924 in New Orleans, Louisiana, originally named Truman Streckfus Persons. He changed his name to Truman Garcia Capote in 1935 – from his stepfather, Joseph Capote, a Cuban-born New York businessman.
- He was primarily raised by his mother’s relatives. Capote’s parents divorced when he was very young, and he was subsequently primarily raised by his mother’s relatives in Monroeville, Alabama.
- A character in To Kill a Mockingbird was based on Capote. Truman Capote’s best friend in Monroeville was the girl-next-door, Nelle Harper Lee, who later based the precocious character of Dill Harris on Capote in her famous novel, To Kill a Mockingbird.
- His breakthrough came with his debut novel. After her subsequent marriage to Joe Capote, Capote’s mother (who later committed suicide) brought him to New York City.
Over the course of the next few years, he became acquainted with everyone involved in the investigation and most of the residents of the small town and the area. Rather than taking notes during interviews, Capote committed conversations to memory and immediately wrote quotes as soon as an interview ended.
You are strong, but there is a flaw in your strength, and unless you learn to control it the flaw will prove stronger than your strength and defeat you. The flaw? Explosive emotional reaction out of all proportion to the occasion. Why?
According to his Random House editor, Joseph Fox, Capote intended Answered Prayers to be the modern American response to Marcel Proust’s multi-volume novel In Search of Lost Time that examined and at times skewered the high society of belle époque France. It was to be Capote’s masterpiece and the height of the “nonfiction novel” format ...
