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• 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.

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  Art, Motivation, Spring

  Truman Capote, M. Thomas Inge (1987). “Truman Capote: Conversations”, p.19, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Mick Jagger is about as sexy as a pissing toad.

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  Sexy, Toads, Jagger

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• Reading dreams. That's what started her walking down the road. Every day she'd walk a little further: a mile, and come home. Two miles, and come home. One day she just kept on.

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  Dream, Reading, Home

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.69, Vintage

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• The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.

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  Enemy, Wanted

  Truman Capote (1980). “In Cold Blood”, p.245, Transaction Publishers

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• There is no shame — having a dirty face — the shame comes when you keep it dirty.

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  Dirty, Faces, Shame

  "In Cold Blood".

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• It's odd about tattoos. I've talked to several hundred men convicted of homicide-multiple homicide, in most cases. The only common denominate- I could find among them was tattoos. A good eighty percent of them were heavily tattooed.

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  Tattoo, Men, Common

  Source: capote.wordpress.com

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• If you can't be friends with a lover, then forget it. It's not going to work.

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  Lovers, Forget, Going To Work

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the world: where then could we look for reassurerance of our identities? I tell you, my dear, Narcissus was so egotist...he was merely another of us who, in our unshatterable isolation, recognized, on seeing his reflection, the beautiful comrade, the only inseparatable love...poor Narcissus, possibly the only human who was ever honest on this point.

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  Beautiful, Reflection, Mirrors

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• I can see every monster as they come in.

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  Monsters, I Can

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• A beautiful day with the buoyancy of a bird.

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  Beautiful, Bird, Beautiful Day

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.53, Vintage

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• I met Lee Harvey Oswald, in Moscow just after he defected. One night I was having dinner with a friend, an Italian newspaper cor­respondent, and when he came by to pick me up he asked me if I'd mind going with him first to talk to a young American defector, one Lee Harvey Oswald. Oswald was staying at the Metropole, an old Czarist hotel just off Kremlin Square.

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  Night, Italian, Squares

  Source: capote.wordpress.com

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• Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

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  Love, Life, Friendship

  Truman Capote (1954). “The Grass Harp”, p.43, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• I live in Brooklyn. By choice. Those ignorant of its allures are entitled to wonder why.

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  Choices, Ignorant, Brooklyn

  Truman Capote (2013). “Portraits and Observations”, p.293, Modern Library

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• Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.

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  Spring, Fall, Autumn

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.54, Vintage

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• A boy has to peddle his book.

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  Book, Boys, Publicity

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• I told you: you can make yourself love anybody.

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  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.41, Vintage

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• The average personality re-shapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete overhaul-desirable or not, it is a natural thing that we should change.

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  Average, Years, Personality

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.58, Vintage

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• I don't want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Entrepreneur

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• 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.

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  Morning, Mean, Ego

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

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• But it's Sunday, Mr. Bell. Clocks are slow on Sundays.

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  Sunday, Bells, Clock

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.72, Vintage

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• In California everyone goes to a therapist, is a therapist, or is a therapist going to a therapist.

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  California, Therapists

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• They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the world: where then could we look for reassurance of our identities?

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  Mirrors, Secret, Identity

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

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• My yardstick is how somebody treats me.

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  Yardsticks, Treats

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.103, Vintage

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• I’ve tried that. I’ve tried aspirin, too. Rusty thinks I should smoke marijuana, and I did for a while, but it only makes me giggle. What I’ve found does the most good is just to get into a taxi and go to Tiffany’s. It calms me down right away, the quietness and the proud look of it; nothing very bad could happen to you there, not with those kind men in their nice suits, and that lovely smell of silver and alligator wallets. If I could find a real-life place that made me feel like Tiffany’s, then I’d buy some furniture and give the cat a name.

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  Real, Nice, Cat

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• And since gin to artifice bears the same relation as tears to mascara, her attractions at once dissembled.

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  Tears, Bears, Mascara

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.46, Vintage

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