Source: Truman Capote: Conversations
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Source: Truman Capote: Conversations
Source: Truman Capote: Conversations
“I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.”
Source: The Grass Harp
Source: Portraits and Observations
Source: Conversations with Capote
“My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.”
“Rusty thinks I should smoke marijuana, and I did for a while, but it only makes me giggle.”
Source: Breakfast at Tiffany's
Source: Truman Capote: Conversations
“Work is the only device I know of.”
Source: Truman Capote: Conversations
Source: Truman Capote: Conversations
Source: Some postwar American writers
“New York is the only real city-city.”
Source: Truman Capote: Conversations
“I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about.”
“Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.”
“That's not writing, that's typing”
Source: Conversations with Capote
Source: Music For Chameleons
“A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.”
Source: The Grass Harp
“All artists are two-headed calves.”
Source: Conversations with Capote
Source: Answered Prayes
Source: Portraits and Observations
Source: Music For Chameleons
“I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.”
Source: Portraits and Observations
“I live in Brooklyn. By choice. Those ignorant of its allures are entitled to wonder why.”
Source: Portraits and Observations
Source: Some postwar American writers
“I've got something inside of me, peasantlike and stubborn, and I'm in it till the end of the race.”
“[T]he army of wrongness rampant in the world might as well march over me.”
Source: Breakfast at Tiffany's
Source: Breakfast at Tiffany's