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Truman Capote

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I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about.


— Truman Capote


#i #like #talk #things #those

I can see every monster as they come in.


— Truman Capote


#every #i #i can #monster #see

Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town.


— Truman Capote


#check #fame #good #one thing #only

All literature is gossip.


— Truman Capote


#literature

Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down.


— Truman Capote


#art #bad #being #between #came

When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely.


— Truman Capote


#gift #god #hands #intended #solely

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


#bones #cold #did #down #ever

I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.


— Truman Capote


#anybody #care #i #long #me

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.


— Truman Capote


#life #love #love is #nature

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.


— Truman Capote


#beginning #big #difference #doing #end






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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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