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Truman Capote Quotes

Champagne does have one regular drawback: swilled as a regular thing a certain sourness settles in the tummy, and the result is permanent bad breath. Really incurable Picture Quote #1

So the days, the last days, blow about in a memory, hazy autumnal, all alike as leaves: until a day unlike any other I’ve lived Picture Quote #1

I don’t mean I’d mind being rich and famous. That’s very much on my schedule and someday I’ll try to get around to it Picture Quote #1

You don’t understand. You’ve never hated anybody. No, I never have. We’re allotted just so much time on earth, and I wouldn’t want the Lord to see me wasting mine in any such manner Picture Quote #1

Hot weather opens the skull of a city, exposing its white brain, and its heart of nerves, which sizzle like the wires inside a lightbulb. And there exudes a sour extra-human smell that makes the very stone seem flesh-alive, webbed and pulsing Picture Quote #1

To wake up one morning and feel that I was a last a grown-up person, emptied of resentment, vengeful thoughts and other wasteful childish emotions. To find myself, in other words, an adult. Truman Capote Picture Quote #1

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Brazil was beastly but Buenos Aires the best. Not Tiffany’s, but almost Picture Quote #1

I thought that Mr. Clutter was a very nice gentleman. I thought so right up to the moment that I cut his throat Picture Quote #1

How do I look so young? Quite simple: a complete vegetable diet, 12 hours sleep a night, and lots and lots of make-up Picture Quote #1

Norman Mailer thinks William Burroughs is a genius, which I think is ludicrous beyond words. I don’t think William Burroughs has an ounce of talent Picture Quote #1

Some cities, like wrapped boxes under Christmas trees, conceal unexpected gifts, secret delights. Some cities will always remain wrapped boxes, containers of riddles never to be solved, nor even to be seen by vacationing visitors, or, for that matter, the most inquisitive, persistent travelers Picture Quote #1

Hulga the whole while hollering like a half-slaughtered hog. (Attention, students of literature! Alliteration - have you noticed? - is my least vice.) Picture Quote #1

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I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O’Connor. I read a lot of American writers Picture Quote #1

I remember writing ‘The One I Can’t Have’ at the kitchen table. I was looking at a picture of Truman Capote with Marilyn Monroe and that’s where I started. It doesn’t make any sense because he was gay, but it was just the idea of the short guy and the beautiful blonde out of his league. That’s where I started, but very quickly it became about me Picture Quote #1

He’d always been willing to confess his faults, for, by admitting them, it was as if he made them no longer exist Picture Quote #1

I knew Lee Harvey Oswald, and I knew Jack Kennedy. The odds against that-one person knowing all four of those men-must be astounding Picture Quote #1

I’ve never had an affair with somebody who wasn’t at the same time a very good friend of mine, if you see what I mean Picture Quote #1

Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship Picture Quote #1

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I’ve never worked for a newspaper. I’ve had some very bad reviews in newspapers Picture Quote #1

You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who’s a friend Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something Picture Quote #1

The walls of the cell fell away, the sky came down, I saw the big yellow bird Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

I don’t mean I’d mind being rich and famous. That’s very much on my schedule, and someday I’ll try to get around to it; but if it happens, I’d like to have my ego tagging along. I want to still be me when I wake up one fine morning and have breakfast at Tiffany’s Picture Quote #1

At one time I used to keep notebooks with outlines for stories. But I found doing this somehow deadened the idea in my imagination. If the notion is good enough, if it truly belongs to you, then you can’t forget it-it will haunt you till it’s written Picture Quote #1

If you can’t be friends with a lover, then forget it. It’s not going to work Picture Quote #1

One day, I started writing, not knowing that I had chained myself for life to a noble but merciless master. When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended solely for self-flagellation... I’m here alone in my dark madness, all by myself with my deck of cards - and, of course, the whip God gave me Picture Quote #1

All writing, all art, is an act of faith. If one tries to contribute to human understanding, how can that be called decadent? It’s like saying a declaration of love is an act of decadence. Any work of art, provide it springs from a sincere motivation to further understanding between people, is an act of faith and therefore is an act of love Picture Quote #1

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Champagne does have one regular drawback: swilled as a regular thing a certain sourness settles in the tummy, and the result is permanent bad breath. Really incurable (Truman Capote Quotes) So the days, the last days, blow about in a memory, hazy autumnal, all alike as leaves: until a day unlike any other I’ve lived (Truman Capote Quotes) I don’t mean I’d mind being rich and famous. That’s very much on my schedule and someday I’ll try to get around to it (Truman Capote Quotes) You don’t understand. You’ve never hated anybody. No, I never have. We’re allotted just so much time on earth, and I wouldn’t want the Lord to see me wasting mine in any such manner (Truman Capote Quotes) Hot weather opens the skull of a city, exposing its white brain, and its heart of nerves, which sizzle like the wires inside a lightbulb. And there exudes a sour extra-human smell that makes the very stone seem flesh-alive, webbed and pulsing (Truman Capote Quotes) To wake up one morning and feel that I was a last a grown-up person, emptied of resentment, vengeful thoughts and other wasteful childish emotions. To find myself, in other words, an adult. Truman Capote (Truman Capote Quotes) Brazil was beastly but Buenos Aires the best. Not Tiffany’s, but almost (Truman Capote Quotes) I thought that Mr. Clutter was a very nice gentleman. I thought so right up to the moment that I cut his throat (Truman Capote Quotes) How do I look so young? Quite simple: a complete vegetable diet, 12 hours sleep a night, and lots and lots of make-up (Truman Capote Quotes) Norman Mailer thinks William Burroughs is a genius, which I think is ludicrous beyond words. I don’t think William Burroughs has an ounce of talent (Truman Capote Quotes) Some cities, like wrapped boxes under Christmas trees, conceal unexpected gifts, secret delights. Some cities will always remain wrapped boxes, containers of riddles never to be solved, nor even to be seen by vacationing visitors, or, for that matter, the most inquisitive, persistent travelers (Truman Capote Quotes) Hulga the whole while hollering like a half-slaughtered hog. (Attention, students of literature! Alliteration - have you noticed? - is my least vice.) (Truman Capote Quotes) I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O’Connor. I read a lot of American writers (Truman Capote Quotes) I remember writing ‘The One I Can’t Have’ at the kitchen table. I was looking at a picture of Truman Capote with Marilyn Monroe and that’s where I started. It doesn’t make any sense because he was gay, but it was just the idea of the short guy and the beautiful blonde out of his league. That’s where I started, but very quickly it became about me (Truman Capote Quotes) He’d always been willing to confess his faults, for, by admitting them, it was as if he made them no longer exist. (Truman Capote Quotes) I knew Lee Harvey Oswald, and I knew Jack Kennedy. The odds against that-one person knowing all four of those men-must be astounding. (Truman Capote Quotes) I’ve never had an affair with somebody who wasn’t at the same time a very good friend of mine, if you see what I mean. (Truman Capote Quotes) Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship (Truman Capote Quotes) I’ve never worked for a newspaper. I’ve had some very bad reviews in newspapers... (Truman Capote Quotes) You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who’s a friend. (Truman Capote Quotes) 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. (Truman Capote Quotes) It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something. (Truman Capote Quotes) The walls of the cell fell away, the sky came down, I saw the big yellow bird (Truman Capote Quotes) 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. (Truman Capote Quotes) 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 Quotes) I don’t mean I’d mind being rich and famous. That’s very much on my schedule, and someday I’ll try to get around to it; but if it happens, I’d like to have my ego tagging along. I want to still be me when I wake up one fine morning and have breakfast at Tiffany’s. (Truman Capote Quotes) At one time I used to keep notebooks with outlines for stories. But I found doing this somehow deadened the idea in my imagination. If the notion is good enough, if it truly belongs to you, then you can’t forget it-it will haunt you till it’s written. (Truman Capote Quotes) If you can’t be friends with a lover, then forget it. It’s not going to work. (Truman Capote Quotes) One day, I started writing, not knowing that I had chained myself for life to a noble but merciless master. When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended solely for self-flagellation... I’m here alone in my dark madness, all by myself with my deck of cards - and, of course, the whip God gave me. (Truman Capote Quotes) All writing, all art, is an act of faith. If one tries to contribute to human understanding, how can that be called decadent? It’s like saying a declaration of love is an act of decadence. Any work of art, provide it springs from a sincere motivation to further understanding between people, is an act of faith and therefore is an act of love. (Truman Capote Quotes)

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