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• Yes: but aren't love and marriage notoriously synonymous in the minds of most women? Certainly very few men get the first without promising the second: love, that is--if it's just a matter of spreading her legs, almost any woman will do that for nothing.

  Truman Capote

  Men, Mind, Love And Marriage

  Truman Capote (2012). “Summer Crossing: A Novel”, p.55, Modern Library

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• I've never had an affair with somebody who wasn't at the same time a very good friend of mine, if you see what I mean.

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  Mean, Good Friend, Affair

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When seriously explored, the short story seems to me the most difficult and disciplining form of prose writing extant. Whatever control and technique I may have I owe entirely to my training in this medium.

  Truman Capote

  Writing, Insightful, Training

  " Truman Capote's previously unknown boyhood tales published" by Philip Oltermann, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2014.

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• Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.

  Truman Capote

  Shotguns, Wells, Noisy

  Truman Capote, M. Thomas Inge (1987). “Truman Capote: Conversations”, p.17, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• And yes, to answer you seriously, I am beginning to be... well, not bored, but tempted; afraid, but tempted. When you've been in pain for a long time, when you wake up every morning with a rising sense of hysteria, then boredom is what you want, marathon sleeps, a silence in yourself.

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  Morning, Pain, Sleep

  Truman Capote (2012). “Answered Prayes”, p.74, Vintage

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• Good luck and believe me, dearest Doc - it's better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear.

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  Country, Believe, Good Luck

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.74, Vintage

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

  Truman Capote

  Dirty, Faces, Shame

  "In Cold Blood".

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• I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.

  Truman Capote

  Country, Simple, Creeks

  Truman Capote (2013). “Portraits and Observations”, p.631, Modern Library

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• I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch.

  Truman Capote

  Lying, Writing, Thinking

  Truman Capote, M. Thomas Inge (1987). “Truman Capote: Conversations”, p.28, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Never love a wild thing, Mr. Bell,’ Holly advised him. ‘That was Doc’s mistake. He was always lugging home wild things. A hawk with a hurt wing. One time it was a full-grown bobcat with a broken leg. But you can’t give your heart to a wild thing; the more you do, the stronger they get. Until they’re strong enough to run into the woods. Or fly into a tree. Then a taller tree. Then the sky. That’s how you’ll end up Mr. Bell. If you let yourself love a wild thing. You’ll end up looking at the sky.

  Truman Capote

  Running, Hurt, Strong

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.74, 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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• If you can't be friends with a lover, then forget it. It's not going to work.

  Truman Capote

  Lovers, Forget, Going To Work

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. It scraped me right down to the marrow of my bones. It nearly killed me. I think, in a way, it did kill me.

  Truman Capote

  Thinking, Blood, Way

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• Personally, I rather think that if you're not creative you've got a problem on your hands. If you are creative you've got a double problem.

  Truman Capote

  Thinking, Hands, Creative

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.

  Truman Capote

  Tone, Malice, Quietness

  Truman Capote (2001). “In Cold Blood”, p.95, Vintage

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• It's redundant to die in Los Angeles.

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  Los Angeles, Redundant, Dies

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• Most people who become suddenly famous overnight will find that they lose practically eighty percent of their friends. Your old friends just can't stand it for some reason.

  Truman Capote

  People, Old Friends, Reason

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

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• ...of all things this was the saddest, that life goes on: if one leaves one's lover, life should stop for him, and if one disappears from the world, then the world should stop, too: and it never did. And that was the real reason for most people getting up in the morning: not because it would matter but because it wouldn't.

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  Morning, Real, People

  Truman Capote (2012). “The Grass Harp”, p.139, Vintage

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• I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

  Truman Capote

  Believe, Writing, Editing

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

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• The more you know about something, the harder it becomes. You become more and more of a perfectionist. I think it's a curse... It's a form of illness!

  Truman Capote

  Thinking, Illness, Perfectionist

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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.

  Truman Capote

  Tattoo, Men, Common

  Source: capote.wordpress.com

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

  Truman Capote

  Sexy, Toads, Jagger

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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 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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• 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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