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Truman Capote is really an interesting cat.


Steve Earle

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I am the heterosexual Truman Capote.
JOSEPH EPSTEIN Truman Capote was a magical, beautiful writer.
LISA UNGER It's a movie about the author, Truman Capote,
DOUGLAS MCGRATH Before Truman Capote, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously.
GERALD CLARKE Truman Capote: In which various friends, enemies, acquaintances and detractors recall his turbulent ...
DOUGLAS MCGRATH Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for h...
RICH LITTLE My dream dinner party guests would be Ethel Kennedy, Truman Capote and Hunter S. Thompson.
DYLAN PENN My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and ter...
ALVIN AILEY I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers.
KIRAN DESAI He still has the same way of calling to me, as if I'm still new to him, as if he has yet to get over...
GEORGE PLIMPTON Every good thing that's ever happened in my career, I have Emmylou Harris and Steve Earle to thank f...
BUDDY MILLER Harper Lee and Truman Capote became friends as next-door neighbors in the late 1920s, when they were...
CHARLES J. SHIELDS Truman Capote was a pop figure, but it wasn't until he went on David Susskind's show and had...
JAMES WOLCOTT The Black and White Ball was a work of performance art. It was a work that was every bit as importan...
DEBORAH DAVIS That's what attracted me to it. I wasn't interested in doing it if it was just going to be about try...
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN Anyone who listens to the 'Jerusalem' album will discover that Steve Earle remains a thoughtful sing...
DANNY GOLDBERG Truman Capote famously claimed to have nearly absolute recall of dialogue and used his prodigious me...
JOSHUA FOER ...he called after her as she
disappeared down the path, a pretty girl in a hurry...
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JAMES ST. JAMES Love, having no geography, knows no boundaries.
TRUMAN CAPOTE No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. It scraped me right down to the m...
TRUMAN CAPOTE Fame is only good for one thing- they will cash your check in a small town.
TRUMAN CAPOTE Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
TRUMAN CAPOTE Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals...
TRUMAN CAPOTE Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
TRUMAN CAPOTE That, Verena managed after some suspenseful seconds, is, she said, regarding her gloved hands, rema...
TRUMAN CAPOTE Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have...
TRUMAN CAPOTE I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
TRUMAN CAPOTE To me the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.
TRUMAN CAPOTE Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade, just as painting does, or music. If you are bor...
TRUMAN CAPOTE A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due t...
TRUMAN CAPOTE Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town.
TRUMAN CAPOTE It was ideal apple-eating weather; the whitest sunlight descended from the purest sky, and an easter...
TRUMAN CAPOTE Champagne does have one regular drawback: swilled as a regular thing a certain sourness settles in t...
TRUMAN CAPOTE And nice to have seen you, Sue. Good luck, he called after her as she disappeared down the path, a p...
TRUMAN CAPOTE People who are having a love-sex relationship are continuously lying to each other because the very ...
TRUMAN CAPOTE Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.
TRUMAN CAPOTE Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
TRUMAN CAPOTE Reading dreams. That's what started her walking down the road. Every day she'd walk a little further...
TRUMAN CAPOTE Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
TRUMAN CAPOTE The answer is good things only happen to you if you're good. Good? Honest is more what I mean... Be ...
TRUMAN CAPOTE You call yourself a free spirit, a "wild thing," and you're terrified somebody's gonna stick you in ...
TRUMAN CAPOTE It may be normal, darling; but I'd rather be natural.
TRUMAN CAPOTE I’ve tried that. I’ve tried aspirin, too. Rusty thinks I should smoke marijuana, and I did for a...
TRUMAN CAPOTE You know the days when you get the mean reds?
Paul Varjak: The mean reds. You mean like the blu...
TRUMAN CAPOTE Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
TRUMAN CAPOTE She was still hugging the cat. "Poor slob," she said, tickling his head, "poor slob without a name. ...
TRUMAN CAPOTE A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: d...
TRUMAN CAPOTE Son, I'd say you were going at it the wrong end first, said the Judge, turning up his coat-collar. H...
TRUMAN CAPOTE The true beloveds of this world are in their lover's eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells,...
TRUMAN CAPOTE In California everyone goes to a therapist, is a therapist, or is a therapist going to a therapist.
TRUMAN CAPOTE Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
TRUMAN CAPOTE It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
TRUMAN CAPOTE I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.
TRUMAN CAPOTE Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't ...
TRUMAN CAPOTE The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
TRUMAN CAPOTE To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.
TRUMAN CAPOTE Most of life is so dull it is not worth discussing, and it is dull at all ages. When we change our b...
TRUMAN CAPOTE There were hints of sunrise on the rim of the sky, yet it was still dark, and the traces of morning ...
TRUMAN CAPOTE Hot weather opens the skull of a city, exposing its white brain, and its heart of nerves, which sizz...
TRUMAN CAPOTE To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words m...
TRUMAN CAPOTE Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way.
TRUMAN CAPOTE He [Mick Jagger] moves like a parody between a majorette girl and Fred Astaire.
TRUMAN CAPOTE Mick Jagger is about as sexy as a pissing toad.
TRUMAN CAPOTE I can see every monster as they come in.
TRUMAN CAPOTE When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation ...
TRUMAN CAPOTE It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year
TRUMAN CAPOTE it's a well-known photograph. This was 1984, just three months before he died.
TRUMAN CAPOTE Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
TRUMAN CAPOTE No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. It scraped me right down to the marrow of...
TRUMAN CAPOTE I never cared for his writings one whit. Boring ... boring.
TRUMAN CAPOTE We're doing John first, and then bringing out Lee.
TRUMAN CAPOTE This is the book I was always meant to write,
TRUMAN CAPOTE The better the actor the more stupid he is
TRUMAN CAPOTE When you've got nowhere to turn, turn on the gas. , "Answered Prayers" (Unspoiled Monsters).
TRUMAN CAPOTE Other voices, other rooms
TRUMAN CAPOTE When I think of how good my book can be, it scares me.
TRUMAN CAPOTE The reason we made it a masked dance was simply because, well, it's a completely free thing, and by ...
TRUMAN CAPOTE She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red ...
TRUMAN CAPOTE It isn't writing at all - it's typing
TRUMAN CAPOTE Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even mo...
TRUMAN CAPOTE My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.
TRUMAN CAPOTE Most contemporary novelists, especially the American and the French, are too subjective, mesmerized ...
TRUMAN CAPOTE The good thing about masturbation is that you don't have to dress up for it
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TRUMAN CAPOTE Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born...
TRUMAN CAPOTE Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call "...
TRUMAN CAPOTE All literature is gossip.
TRUMAN CAPOTE I only object when any one particular group...gets a stranglehold on American criticism and squeezes...
TRUMAN CAPOTE Any love is natural and beautiful that lies within a person’s nature; only hypocrites would hold a...
TRUMAN CAPOTE Oh, I adore to cook. It makes me feel so mindless in a worthwhile way.
TRUMAN CAPOTE But I'm not a saint yet. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm homosexual. I'm a genius.
TRUMAN CAPOTE Too Brief a Treat
TRUMAN CAPOTE Fame is only good for one thing-they will cash your check in a small town.
TRUMAN CAPOTE Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.
TRUMAN CAPOTE It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in so...
TRUMAN CAPOTE And turning in space, her hair swung like a victory. They danced until all at once and as one the mu...
TRUMAN CAPOTE Good luck and believe me, dearest Doc - it's better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empt...
TRUMAN CAPOTE I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart. Which isn't being pious. Just practical. Cancer may c...
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ALICE MORSE EARLE You have to live what you write, or you have to know it. There are exceptions, like story songs, whe...
JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE The landlord of colonial days may not have been the greatest man in town, but he was certainly the b...
ALICE MORSE EARLE The first and most natural way of lighting the houses of the American colonists, both in the North a...
ALICE MORSE EARLE It is one thing to know about your dysfunctional habits but quite another to change them.
DAVID W. EARLE Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.
ALICE MORSE EARLE The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow ...
ALICE MORSE EARLE Controlling others is the cornerstone of dysfunctional families.
DAVID W. EARLE From the hour when the Puritan baby opened his eyes in bleak New England, he had a Spartan struggle ...
ALICE MORSE EARLE One of the earliest institutions in every New England community was a pair of stocks. The first publ...
ALICE MORSE EARLE REAL people do not
have to lie, exaggerate, or brag for they are self-contained in self-unders...
DAVID W. EARLE Many of us ask what can I, as one person, do, but history shows us that everything good and bad star...
SYLVIA A. EARLE Few of the early houses in New England were painted, or colored, as it was called, either without or...
ALICE MORSE EARLE As a parent who raised his children in dysfunction, I know the parental wounds my children received ...
DAVID W. EARLE I think a lot of men are afraid of pretty things, and I'm not, I like pretty songs.
JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE We should have scant notion of the gardens of these New England colonists in the seventeenth century...
ALICE MORSE EARLE I didn't get into music to become a blues musician, or a country musician. I'm a singer-song...
JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE There's no such thing as a teenager that listens to a single word their father says.
JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE Nashville's like any other hometown - after a while, it's stifling.
JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE