Truman Capote is one of the great writers of the 20th century. His pithy remarks are often quoted and referenced in popular culture and literature. He writes and has been written about. While he may not specifically write about marriage, the following quotes offer an interesting perspective on marriage.
- 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.
- All literature is gossip.
- Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.
- Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
- Fame is only good for one thing – they will cash your check in a small town.
- Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
- 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 just not really friends.
- Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
- Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
- People who are having a love-sex relationship are continuously lying to each other because the very nature of the relationship demands that they do, because you have to make a love object of this person, which means that you editorialize about them. You cut out what you don’t want to see, you add this if it isn’t there. And so therefore you’re building a lie.
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