Truman Capote Quotes - Page 7

• I am always drawn back to places where I have lived, the houses and their neighborhoods.

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  House, Neighborhood

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.3, Vintage

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• Leave it to me: I'm always top banana in the shock department.

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  Inspiración, motivación, iniciativa empresarial

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.61, Vintage

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• Pero aún no soy un santo. Soy un alcohólico. Soy drogadicto. Soy homosexual. Soy un genio.

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  Beber, alcohol, drogas

  Truman Capote (2012). “Music For Chameleons”, p.273, Vintage

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• I think most people are very, very much motivated by sex - greed, sex, and hunger.

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  Sexo, Pensamiento, Gente

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You're wonderful. Unique. I love you.

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  Love You, Unique, Wonderful

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.83, Vintage

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• I've tried to believe, but I don't, I can't, and there's no use pretending.

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  Believe, Use, Pretending

  Truman Capote (2001). “In Cold Blood”, p.260, Vintage

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• 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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  Inspirational, Long, Waiting

  Truman Capote (2001). “In Cold Blood”, p.96, Vintage

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• Since each story presents its own technical problems, obviously one can't generalize about them on a two-times-two-equals-four basis. Finding the right form for your story is simply to realize the most natural way of telling the story. The test of whether or not a writer has defined the natural shape of his story is just this: After reading it, can you imagine it differently, or does it silence your imagination and seem to you absolute and final? As an orange is final. As an orange is something nature has made just right.

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  Reading, Two, Orange

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• Talent, and genius as well, is like a grain of pearl sand shifting about in the creative mind. A valued tormentor.

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  Writing, Creative, Mind

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• When I am writing, I try to do it five hours a day but I spend about two of those just fooling around.

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  Writing, Two, Trying

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• June, July, all through the warm months she hibernated like a winter animal who did not know spring had come and gone.

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  Spring, Winter, Animal

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.80, Vintage

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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.

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  Want, University, Semester

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The instant she saw the letter she squinted her eyes and bent her lips in a tough tiny smile that advanced her age immeasurably. "Darling," she instructed me, "would you reach in the drawer there and give me my purse. A girl doesn't read this sort of thing without her lipstick.

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  Girl, Eye, Giving

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.98, Vintage

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• But he does look stupid.' Yearning. Not stupid. He wants awfully to be on the inside staring out: anybody with their nose pressed against a glass is liable to look stupid.

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  Stupid, Glasses, Doe

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.48, Vintage

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• Se quitó las gafas oscuras y me miró entrecerrando los ojos. Era como si sus ojos fueran prismas rotos, los puntos azules, grises y verdes como destellos rotos.

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  Eye, Dark, Glasses

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.71, Vintage

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• Maybe the older you grow and the less easy it is to put thought into action, maybe that’s why it gets all locked up in your head and becomes a burden.

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  Inspirational, Action, Breakfast At Tiffanys

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.10, Vintage

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• we don't belong to each other: he's an independent, and so am I.

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  Independent, Breakfast At Tiffanys

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.39, Vintage

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• Intelligence alone can't make a good writer and style alone can't make a good writer - that is, not a really important or significant writer - but the two things together make a really good writer.

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  Two, Style, Important

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Oh Jesus God we did belong to each other. He was mine.

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  Jesus, Jesus God, Mines

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• I'll wager at the end a body realizes the Lord has already shown Himself. That things as they are -- her hand circles in a gesture that gathers clouds and kites and grass and Queenie pawing earth over her bone - just what they've always seen, was seeing Him. As for me, I could leave the world with today in my eyes.

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  Eye, Hands, Circles

  Truman Capote (2012). “A Christmas Memory”, p.25, Modern Library

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• Talent is a valued tormentor.

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  Talento

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• The way his plump hand clutched at her hip seemed somehow improper; not morally, aesthetically.

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  Hands, Way, Hips

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.13, Vintage

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• Toda la literatura es cotilleo.

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  Gossip, Literature

  Truman Capote, M. Thomas Inge (1987). “Truman Capote: Conversations”, p.337, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• There's lots of things you don't know. All kinds of strange things . . . mostly they happened before we were born: that makes them seem to me so much more real.

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  Real, Strange, Kind

  Truman Capote (2007). “Other Voices, Other Rooms”, p.107, Vintage

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• I suppose you think I'm very brazen. Or très fou. Or something.' Not at all.' She seemed disappointed. 'Yes, you do. Everybody does. I don't mind. It's useful.

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  Thinking, Mind, Doe

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.18, Vintage

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