Truman Capote Quotes - Page 10

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• But, my dear, so few things are fulfilled: what are most lives but a series of incompleted episodes? 'We work in the dark, we do what we can, we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task...' It is wanting to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something.

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  Believe, Passion, Dark

  Truman Capote (1955). “Other voices, other rooms”, Modern Library

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• Never love a wild thing...If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky.

  Truman Capote

  Sky, Breakfast At Tiffanys, Ends

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• Some prisons don't allow guitar because the strings can be detached and used as weapons.

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  Guitar, Weapons, Prison

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• Lee Harvey Oswald was boiling over about everything: the American ambassador; the Russians-he was mad at them because they wouldn't let him stay in Moscow. We talked to him for about half an hour, and my Italian friend didn't think the guy was worth filing a story about. Just another paranoid hysteric; the Moscow woods were rampant with those. I never thought about him again, not until many years later. Not until after the assassina­tion when I saw his picture flashed on television.

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  Thinking, Italian, Years

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• Jay Sebring cut my hair a couple of times.

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  Couple, Cutting, Hair

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• I want to still be me when I wake up one fine morning and have breakfast at Tiffany´s.

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  Morning, Wake Up, Breakfast

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.39, Vintage

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• It snowed all week. Wheels and footsteps moved soundlessly on the street, as if the business of living continued secretly behind a pale but impenetrable curtain. In the falling quiet there was no sky or earth, only snow lifting in the wind, frosting the window glass, chilling the rooms, deadening and hushing the city. At all hours it was necessary to keep a lamp lighted, and Mrs. Miller lost track of the days: Friday was no different from Saturday and on Sunday she went to the grocery: closed, of course.

  Truman Capote

  Friday, Fall, Sunday

  Truman Capote, Eleanor Perry, Frank Perry (1971). “Trilogy; an experiment in multimedia”

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• Then why does Kenneth Anger wear a picture locket on a chain around his neck? On one side of the locket there is a picture of you; on the other there is an image of a frog with an inscription: "Bobby Beausoleil changed into a frog by Kenneth Anger." A voodoo amulet, so to say.

  Truman Capote

  Doe, Frogs, Sides

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• When I'm writing, I never write more than four hours a day.

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  Writing, Four, Hours

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• I've never been a teacher in my life.

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  Teacher

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• I'd met Sharon Tate at the Cannes Film Festival.

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  Cannes Film Festival, Festivals, Mets

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• There was an American girl, Priscilla Johnson. She worked for U.P. in Moscow. She knew [John] Kennedy, and she met [Lee Harvey] Oswald around the same time I did. But I can tell you some­thing else almost as curious.

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  Girl, Moscow, John Kennedy

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• A disquieting loneliness came into my life, but it induced no hunger for friends of longer acquaintance: they seemed now like a salt-free, sugarless diet.

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  Loneliness, Salt, Hunger

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.28, Vintage

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• New York is a diamond iceberg floating in river water.

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  New York, Rivers, Water

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox.

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  Real, Triumph, Paradox

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.44, Vintage

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• It was the most haunting room I've ever seen. Because you know what's in it? All the left­overs, all the paraphernalia that the different condemned men had had with them in the "holding" cells.

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  Men, Cells, Different

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• When the prisoner is brought down from Death Row he steps from the elevator directly into a "holding" room that adjoins the witness room. There are two cells in this "holding" room, two, in case it's a double execution. They're ordinary cells, just like this one, and the prisoner spends his last night there before his execu­tion in the morning, reading, listening to the radio, playing cards with the guards.

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  Morning, Reading, Night

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• My father was quite an attractive guy. He was very intelligent and very amusing. I didn't like him. He was always very nice to me but I just didn't like him.

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  Father, Nice, Intelligent

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

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  Nice, Cutting, Gentleman

  "In Cold Blood". Book by Truman Capote, 1965.

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• Those final weeks, spanning end of summer and the beginning of another autumn, are blurred in memory, perhaps because our understanding of each other had reached that sweet depth where two people communicate more often in silence than in words: an affectionate quietness replaces the tensions, the unrelaxed chatter and chasing about that produce a friendship’s more showy, more, in the surface sense, dramatic moments.

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  Summer, Sweet, Memories

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• I'm scarcely an enfant!

  Truman Capote

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• 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.

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  Years, Games, Play

  1965 In Cold Blood, ch.4.

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• I never had a rejection slip in my life.

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  Rejection, Slips

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you have a single narrator, a person like an "I" - "'I' did this" and "'I' did that" - it automatically solves the most difficult problem in writing.

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  Writing, Narrators, Problem

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Gasping for breath, the body still battling for life.

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  Body, Stills, Breaths

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