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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

Truman Capote Friendship Love Stranger

He loved her, he loved her, and until he'd loved her she had never minded being alone....

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Truman Capote Love

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

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Truman Capote Life Metaphor

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

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Truman Capote Humor Self Description

I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart. Which isn't being pious. Just practical. Cancer may cool you, but the other's sure to.

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Truman Capote Honesty Truth

The blame of course belonged to Clyde, who just was not much given to talk. Also, he seemed very little curious himself: Grady, alarmed sometimes by the meagerness of his inquiries and the indifference this might suggest, supplied him liberally with personal information; which isn't to say she always told the truth, how many people in love do? or can? but at least she permitted him enough truth to account more or less accurately for all the life she had lived away from him. It was her feeling, however, that he would as soon not hear her confessions: he seemed to want her to be as elusive, as secretive as he was himself.

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Truman Capote Love Relationships Romance Truth

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

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Truman Capote Experience Failure Metaphor Success Wisdom

You cold or something?' he said. She strained against him; she wanted to pass clear through him: 'It's a chill, it's nothing'; and then, pushing a little away: 'Say you love me.'I said it.'No, oh no. You haven't. I was listening. And you never do.'Well, give me time.'Please.'He sat up and glanced at a clock across the room. It was after five. Then decisively he pulled off his windbreaker and began to unlace his shoes.Aren't you going to, Clyde?'He grinned back at her. 'Yeah, I'm going to.'I don't mean that; and what's more, I don't like it: you sound as though you were talking to a whore.'Come off it, honey. You didn't drag me up here to tell you about love.'You disgust me,' she said.Listen to her! She's sore!'A silence followed that circulated like an aggrieved bird. Clyde said, 'You want to hit me, huh? I kind of like you when you're sore: that's the kind of girl you are,' which made Grady light in his arms when he lifted and kissed her. 'You still want me to say it?' Her head slumped on his shoulder. 'Because I will,' he said, fooling his fingers in her hair. 'Take off your clothes--and I'll tell it to you good.

~ Truman Capote

Truman Capote Love Relationships Romance Sex

Once a thing is set to happen, all you can do is hope it won't. Or will-depending. As long as you live, there’s always something waiting, and even if it’s bad, and you know it's bad, what can you do? You can’t stop living.

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Truman Capote Bad Things Death Fate Inspirational Life Living

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

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Truman Capote Creative Process Music Poetry Writing

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

~ Truman Capote

Truman Capote Humor Writing

It's a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something down out of them.

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Truman Capote Writing

That isn't writing at all, it's typing.

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Truman Capote Capote Humor Writing

If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there's no point in it. . . . for me, every act of art is the act of solving a mystery.

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Truman Capote Books Creativity Writing

I know it's become fashionable to depict the police as sadistic Cossacks riding down innocent citizens, but I've become well enough acquainted with law-enforcement agencies across the country to know that's just not the case. Of course, a certain small percentage of policemen are irresponsible...but that doesn't justify the current unjust barrage of propaganda against a tribe of men who are hard-working, underpaid and daily risking their lives to protect us. I'm sure there are isolated instances of police brutality, but the rising crime rate and urban violence constitute a far, far more pressing problem.

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When he was in the army he'd picked up a great many girls: sometimes nothing happened except a lot of talk, and that was all right too: because it didn't matter what you said to them, for in those transient moments lies or truth were arbitrary and you were whatever you wanted to be.

~ Truman Capote

Truman Capote Lies Moments People Relationships Self Talk Truth

Imagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in.

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Truman Capote Fear Horror Imagination

Don't wanna sleep, don't wanna die, just wanna go a-travelin' through the pastures of the sky.

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Truman Capote Dreams

The trouble with all these far-right and far-left mentalities is that they can encompass only one side of an argument and are congenitally incapable of holding two opinions in their heads at the same time.

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Truman Capote Capote Extremism Farleft Farright Inspirational Opinions Politics Trumancapote

So if black power means black armies racing through the streets, creating havoc, that certainly does nothing to advance the legitimate political and economic aspirations of the black community. Just the opposite, in fact....If they think a few Molotov cocktails are going to bring down the whole system and build something new, I'm afraid they're just indulging in wishful-thinking

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Truman Capote Blackpeople Humanrights Politics Rioting Violence Violentprotests

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.

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Truman Capote Love Marriage Women

I have an extremely strong, masculine mind and a feminine sensibility level, which is kind of an unusual combination. Both men and women tell me things and I can relate on two levels simultaneously.

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Truman Capote Feminine Femininity Inspirational Masculine Masculinity Men Trumancapote Women

The only rich women who ever interested me, the ones who were ever my friends, were adventuresses---people who were total self-creations.

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Truman Capote Inspirational Rich Wealth Wealthy Women

The average personality re-shapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete overhaul-desirable or not, it is a natural thing that we should change.

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Truman Capote Body Image Change Life

Watching her, I remembered a girl I'd known in school, a grind, Mildred Grossman. Mildred: with her moist hair and greasy spectacles, her strained fingers that dissected frogs and carried coffee to picket lines, her flat eyes that only turned toward the stars to estimate their chemical tonnage. Earth and air could not be more opposite than Mildred and Holly, yet in my head they acquired a Siamese twinship, and the thread of thought that had sewn them together ran like this: the average personality reshapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete overhaul--desirable or not, it is a natural thing that we should change. All right, here were two people who never would. That is what Mildred Grossman had in common with Holly Golightly. They would never change because they'd been given their character too soon; which, like sudden riches, leads to a lack of proportion: the one had splurged herself into a top-heavy realist, the other a lopsided romantic. I imagined them in a restaurant of the future, Mildred still studying the menu for its nutritional values, Holly still gluttonous for everything on it. It would never be different. They would walk through life and out of it with the same determined step that took small notice of those cliffs at the left.

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Truman Capote Change Fate Life Philosophy

A very fine artist can take something quite ordinary and, through sheer artistry and willpower, turn it into a work of art.

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Truman Capote Art Artist Genius Inspirational Talent

I think the argument that no whites are free of racism is quite erroneous. But then, on another level, does it really matter if anybody is free of any negative feeling about anything? No matter how much you love somebody, you know, there's some part of him you don't like.

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Truman Capote Capote Feelings Humanity Inspirational Love Racism Trumancapote Whitepeople

But if you live your life without feeling and compassion for your fellowman—you are as an animal—'an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth' & happiness & peace of mind is not attained by living thus.

~ Truman Capote

Truman Capote Compassion Humanity

Somewhere in this world there exists an exceptional philosopher named Florie Rotondo.The other day I came across one of her ruminations printed in a magazine devoted to the writings of schoolchildren. It said: “If I could do anything, I would go to the middle of our planet, Earth, and seek uranium, rubies, and gold. I'd look for Unspoiled Monsters. Then I'd move to the country. --Florie Rotondo, age 8.”Florie, honey, I know just what you mean – even if you don’t: how could you, age eight?

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Truman Capote Discovery Dreams Fantasy Monsters Philosophical Ruminations School Searching

All children are morbid: it's their one saving grace.

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Truman Capote Children La La La Morbidity Other People

Strange where our passions carry us, floggingly pursue us, forcing upon us unwanted dreams, unwelcome destinies.

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Truman Capote Destiny Dream Life Passion Strange

If we know the past, and live the present, it is possible that we dream the future?

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Truman Capote Future Past Present

Fitzgerald has charm. It's a silly word, but it's an exact word for me. I like 'The Great Gatsby' and it's sad, gay nostalgia.

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Royal summoned mourners. They came from the village, from the neighboring hills and, wailing like dogs at midnight, laid siege to the house. Old women beat their heads against the walls, moaning men prostrated themselves: it was the art of sorrow, and those who best mimicked grief were much admired. After the funeral everyone went away, satisfied that they'd done a good job.

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Truman Capote Flowers Funeral Grief House Phonies Satisfaction

Perhaps, like most of us in a foreign country, he was incapable of placing people, selecting a frame for their picture, as he would at home; therefore all Americans had to be judged in a pretty equal light, and on this basis his companions appeared to be tolerable examples of local color and national character.

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Truman Capote Foreigners Travel

Some cities, like wrapped boxes under Christmas trees, conceal unexpected gifts, secret delights. Some cities will always remain wrapped boxes, containers of riddles never to be solved, nor even to be seen by vacationing visitors, or, for that matter, the most inquisitive, persistent travelers.

~ Truman Capote

Truman Capote City Mystery Travel

Are the dead as lonesome as the living?

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Truman Capote Loneliness

The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His works means nothing, otherwise. It has no meaning.

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Truman Capote Artist Meaning

The walls of the cell fell away, the sky came down, I saw the big yellow bird.

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Truman Capote Perry Smith Suicide

Hot weather opens the skull of a city, exposing its white brain, and its heart of nerves, which sizzle like the wires inside a lightbulb. And there exudes a sour extra-human smell that makes the very stone seem flesh-alive, webbed and pulsing.

~ Truman Capote

Truman Capote Alive City Description Human Life Summer
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