Truman Capote Quotes - Page 9

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• I don't use a typewriter, I write longhand, with a pencil. Essentially I'm a horizontal writer. I think better when I'm lying down.

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  Lying, Writing, Thinking

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• I've been working, working, working, and you know, sometimes you look back at your work and you see that it just isn't any good.

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  Looks, Sometimes, Knows

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• 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.

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  Notebook, Ideas, Imagination

  Truman Capote, M. Thomas Inge (1987). “Truman Capote: Conversations”, p.30, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I also write the last paragraph or page of a story first. That way I always know what I'm working towards.

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  Writing, Stories, Pages

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think my greatest talent really is for friendship.

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  Thinking, Talent

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Technically I feel total fluidity in writing. I feel there's nothing technically that I can't do the way a certain sort of pianist feels that. But that doesn't mean it comes easily. It doesn't.

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  Mean, Writing, Fluidity

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've always seen myself as a winner, even as a kid. If I hadn't, I just might have gone down the drain a couple of times. I've got something inside of me, peasantlike and stubborn, and I'm in it 'til the end of the race.

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  Couple, Kids, Self Confidence

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• I'm one of the world's greatest pencil sharpeners.

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  World, Pencil Sharpeners, Sharpener

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• But mostly they were lies I told; it wasn't my fault, I couldn't remember, because it was as though I'd been to one of those supernatural castles visited by characters in legends: once away, you do not remember, all that is left is the ghostly echo of haunting wonder.

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  Lying, Character, Echoes

  Truman Capote (2013). “Portraits and Observations”, p.20, Modern Library

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• Here is a hall without exit, a tunnel without end.

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  Tunnels, Exit, Ends

  Truman Capote (2012). “The Grass Harp”, p.236, Vintage

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• I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it would be true from beginning to end.

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  Fake People, Writing, Reality

  Truman Capote, M. Thomas Inge (1987). “Truman Capote: Conversations”, p.70, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Of many magics, one is watching a beloved sleep: free of eyes and awareness, you for a sweet moment hold the heart of him; helpless, he is then all, and however irrationally, you have trusted him to be, man-pure, child-tender.

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  Sweet, Children, Heart

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• It's worth your life to order an omelette in most restaurants. You never know what you're going to get.

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  Order, Restaurants, Knows

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've got something inside of me, peasantlike and stubborn, and I'm in it till the end of the race.

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  Inspirational, Race, Till The End

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• But there were moments when she played songs that made you wonder where she learned them, where indeed she came from. Harsh-tender wandering tunes with words that smacked of pinewoods or prairie. One went: Don’t wanna sleep, Don’t wanna die, Just wanna go a-travelin’ through the pastures of the sky; and this one seemed to gratify her the most, for often she continued it long after her hair hard dried, after the sun had gone and there were lighted windows in the dusk.

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  Song, Sleep, Hair

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• There is really no practical help that one can offer: it is a matter of self-discovery, of one's own conviction, or working with one's own work; your style is what seems natural to you. It is a long process of discovery, one that never ends. I am working at it, and will be as long as I live.

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  Writing, Discovery, Self

  "Too Brief a Treat: The Letters of Truman Capote".

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• ...there was a blond misty boy sitting beside me, and he looked at me, and I at him, and we were not strangers: our hands moved towards each other to embrace. I never heard his voice, for we did not speak; it is a shame, I should so like the memory of it. Loneliness, like fever, thrives on night, but there with him light broke, breaking in the trees like birdsong, and when sunrise came, he loosened his fingers from mine, and walked away, that misty boy, my friend.

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  Memories, Loneliness, Night

  Flannery O'Connor, Truman Capote, Ray Bradbury, James Baldwin, James Purdy (1962). “Some postwar American writers”

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• 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.

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  Men, Odds, Knowing

  Source: capote.wordpress.com

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• She had only one flaw. She was perfect, otherwise whe was perfect.

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  Perfect, Flaws

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• Sicily is more beautiful than any woman.

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  Beautiful

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• I despise people who can't control themselves.

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  People, Despise

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• It's like a jumble of huts in a jungle somewhere. I don't understand how you can live there. It's really, completely dead. Walk along the street, there's nothing moving. I've lived in small Spanish fishing villages which were literally sunny all day long everyday of the week, but they weren't as boring as Los Angeles.

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  Moving, Fishing, Long

  Lawrence Grobel, Truman Capote (1985). “Conversations with Capote”, E P Dutton

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• 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.

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  Writing, Dark, Self

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• Any work of art, provided 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 moves like a parody between a majorette girl and Fred Astaire.

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  Girl, Moving, Parody

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