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Truman Capote

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You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.


— Truman Capote


#love #stranger #friendship

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.


— Truman Capote


#music #poetry #writing #music

Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.


— Truman Capote


#book #child #finishing #just #like

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.


— Truman Capote


#luck

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


— Truman Capote


#i #just #noisy #shotgun #tall

It is no shame to have a dirty face- the shame comes when you keep it dirty.


— Truman Capote


#shame

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.


— Truman Capote


#conversations #dialogue #due #few #good

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


— Truman Capote


#i #i believe #i do #more #pencil

It's bad enough in life to do without something YOU want; but confound it, what gets my goat is not being able to give somebody something you want THEM to have.


— Truman Capote


#life

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.


— Truman Capote


#does #fine #just #knowing #laws






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Carson bought a crypt at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles. Forster but had ignored the author's homosexuality. Capote's will provided that after Dunphy's death a literary trust would be establiTruman Capoted sustained by revenues from Capote's works to fund various literary prizes fellowships and scholarships including the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in Memory of Newton Arvin commemorating not only Capote but also his friend Newton Arvin the Smith College professor and critic who lost his job after his homosexuality was exposed.

Truman Streckfus Persons (September 30 1924 – August 25 1984) known as Truman Capote (pron. In the 1970s he maintained his celebrity status by appearing on television talk shows. He had discovered his calling as a writer by the age of 11 and for the rest of his childhood he honed his writing ability.

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