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I hated Hemingway. I liked Faulkner but he was a bore.
Truman Capote
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I'd met Sharon Tate at the Cannes Film Festival.
Truman Capote
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[T]he army of wrongness rampant in the world might as well march over me.
Truman Capote
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If you cast wrong, you are in a lot of trouble.
Paul Mazursky
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Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me pegged, because of the way I am, the way I talk. And they're always wrong.
Truman Capote
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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
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If you weren't here, if you could be anywhere you wanted to be, doing anything you wanted to do, where would you be and what would you be doing?
Truman Capote
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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
Truman Capote
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New York is the only real city-city.
Truman Capote
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What I do requires fantastic concentration... but you can't be totally alone, or you lose all contact with reality, so even when I'm engrossed and secluded, Jack Dunphy can be there. He's my oldest and best friend, and best critic too.
Truman Capote
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I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.
Truman Capote
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I've never been a teacher in my life.
Truman Capote
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Many universities have asked me to come for a semester but I don't want to do it because I don't have the patience.
Truman Capote
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I think of myself as a stylist, and stylists can become notoriously obsessed with the placing of a comma, the weight of a semicolon.
Truman Capote
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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
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The good thing about masturbation is that you don't have to get dressed up for it.
Truman Capote
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Champagne does have one regular drawback: swilled as a regular thing a certain sourness settles in the tummy, and the result is permanent bad breath. Really incurable.
Truman Capote
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I thought that Mr. Clutter was a very nice gentleman. I thought so right up to the moment that I cut his throat.
Truman Capote
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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.
Maya Angelou
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And since gin to artifice bears the same relation as tears to mascara, her attractions at once dissembled.
Truman Capote
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I'm one of the world's greatest pencil sharpeners.
Truman Capote
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Brazil was beastly but Buenos Aires the best. Not Tiffany's, but almost.
Truman Capote
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Imagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in.
Truman Capote
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I feel that all a writer has is his own experience.
Truman Capote
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