Truman Capote Quotes - Page 8

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• Intelligence alone can't make a good writer and style alone can't make a good writer - that is, not a really important or significant writer - but the two things together make a really good writer.

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  Two, Style, Important

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've tried to believe, but I don't, I can't, and there's no use pretending.

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  Believe, Use, Pretending

  Truman Capote (2001). “In Cold Blood”, p.260, Vintage

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• Talent, and genius as well, is like a grain of pearl sand shifting about in the creative mind. A valued tormentor.

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  Writing, Creative, Mind

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• The average personality reshapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete overhaul - desirable or not, it is a natural thing that we should change. All right, here were two people who never would change. That is what Mildred Grossman had in common with Holly Golightly. They would never change because they'd been given their character too soon; which, like sudden riches, leads to a lack of proportion: the one had splurged herself into a top-heavy realist, the other a lopsided romantic.

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  Character, Average, Years

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• The instant she saw the letter she squinted her eyes and bent her lips in a tough tiny smile that advanced her age immeasurably. "Darling," she instructed me, "would you reach in the drawer there and give me my purse. A girl doesn't read this sort of thing without her lipstick.

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  Girl, Eye, Giving

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.98, Vintage

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• Many universities have asked me to come for a semester but I don't want to do it because I don't have the patience.

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  Want, University, Semester

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• But he does look stupid.' Yearning. Not stupid. He wants awfully to be on the inside staring out: anybody with their nose pressed against a glass is liable to look stupid.

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  Stupid, Glasses, Doe

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.48, Vintage

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• All literature is gossip.

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  Gossip, Literature

  Truman Capote, M. Thomas Inge (1987). “Truman Capote: Conversations”, p.337, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The way his plump hand clutched at her hip seemed somehow improper; not morally, aesthetically.

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  Hands, Way, Hips

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.13, Vintage

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• we don't belong to each other: he's an independent, and so am I.

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  Independent, Breakfast At Tiffanys

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

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• Oh Jesus God we did belong to each other. He was mine.

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  Jesus, Jesus God, Mines

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• I'll wager at the end a body realizes the Lord has already shown Himself. That things as they are -- her hand circles in a gesture that gathers clouds and kites and grass and Queenie pawing earth over her bone - just what they've always seen, was seeing Him. As for me, I could leave the world with today in my eyes.

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  Eye, Hands, Circles

  Truman Capote (2012). “A Christmas Memory”, p.25, Modern Library

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• There's lots of things you don't know. All kinds of strange things . . . mostly they happened before we were born: that makes them seem to me so much more real.

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  Real, Strange, Kind

  Truman Capote (2007). “Other Voices, Other Rooms”, p.107, Vintage

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• I suppose you think I'm very brazen. Or très fou. Or something.' Not at all.' She seemed disappointed. 'Yes, you do. Everybody does. I don't mind. It's useful.

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  Thinking, Mind, Doe

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.18, Vintage

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• Talent is a valued tormentor.

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  Talent

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• She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a Flamingo.

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  Queens, Wonderland, Flamingos

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I guess if you're that thin and that small you don't need to take up too much space or breathe that much air. You just keep on going.

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  Air, Space, Needs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What I 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.

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  Doe, Looks, Aspirin

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.40, Vintage

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• 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

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  Memories, Blow, Lasts

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• Wrinkles and bones, white hair and diamonds: I can't wait.

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  Wrinkles, Hair, White

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

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• Dizzy with excitement is no mere phrase.

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  Phrases, Dizzy, Excitement

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.52, Vintage

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• Don't wanna sleep, don't wanna die, just wanna go a-travellin' through the pastures of the sky

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  Sleep, Sky, Pastures

  Truman Capote (2014). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.92, Serambi Ilmu Semesta

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• I don't think I've ever drunk champagne before breakfast before. With breakfast on several occasions, but never before before.

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  Drinking, Thinking, Drunk

  "Fictional character: Paul "Fred" Varjak". "Breakfast at Tiffany's", 1961.

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• I think the only person a writer has an obligation to is himself. If what I write doesn't fulfill something in me, if I don't honestly feel it's the best I can do, then I'm miserable.

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  Writing, Thinking, Miserable

  Truman Capote, M. Thomas Inge (1987). “Truman Capote: Conversations”, p.43, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• All artists are two-headed calves.

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  Art, Artist, Two

  Lawrence Grobel, Truman Capote (1986). “Conversations with Capote”, Plume

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