Truman Capote Quotes - Page 12

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• With one exception everybody who has ever been involved with me is still a great friend of mine.

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  Great Friend, Exception, Stills

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• When I make fried chicken I always serve masses and masses of fresh mangos. It's a great combination.

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  Chickens, Combination, Mass

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• I would have liked to have known Oscar Wilde because I think he must have been very amusing and entertaining.

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  Thinking, Oscars, Amusing

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• If Francoise Sagan hadn't written a book called A Chateau in Sweden, I would certainly write a short story called A Chateau in Puerto Rico. And I may yet.

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  Book, Writing, Stories

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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

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

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  Body, Stills, Breaths

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

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  Cannes Film Festival, Festivals, Mets

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• Jay Sebring cut my hair a couple of times.

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  Couple, Cutting, Hair

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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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• 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.

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  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 think to be a good teacher you need an enormous amount of patience and I'm a very impatient person.

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  Teacher, Thinking, Needs

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• I feel that all a writer has is his own experience.

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  Feels

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• That's all a writer has to write about - what he sees and hears and what not.

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  Writing

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• If you happen to capture my imagination for some reason and I decide to write about you and you don't like what I wrote about you, which is entirely possible, then yes, I'm a dangerous writer.

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  Writing, Imagination, Reason

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• I'm not a philosopher.

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  Philosopher

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• I'm not a character in any of my books.

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  Book, Character

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• One always likes one's latest book best. That's a natural feeling.

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  Book, Feelings, Likes

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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

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• I never had a rejection slip in my life.

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  Rejection, Slips

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