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Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these…
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All men and women are born, live, suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, whether they be…
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A cat is the only domestic animal I know who toilet trains itself and does a damned impressive job of it.
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One serious drawback about letters is that, in order to get them, one must send some out. When it comes to the…
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What all great teachers appear to have in common is love of their subject, an obvious satisfaction in rousing this love in…
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Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all.
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I myself think anti-Semitism is about envy.
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In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.
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Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly.
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High standards generally -- about workmanship and creation of objects, about what is owed in friendship, about the quality of art and…
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I was recently asked what it takes to become a writer. Three things, I answered: first, one must cultivate incompetence at almost…
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I am afraid I am one of those people who continues to read in the hope of sometime discovering in a book…
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I am the heterosexual Truman Capote.
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Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him.
— Rich Little
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I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers.
— Kiran Desai
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My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man.
— Alvin Ailey
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Truman Capote famously claimed to have nearly absolute recall of dialogue and used his prodigious memory as an excuse never to take…
— Joshua Foer
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot". ~Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1958, spoken by the character Holly…
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To wake up one morning and feel that I was a last a grown-up person, emptied of resentment, vengeful thoughts and other…
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A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traitor to his class. It is…
— Mary McCarthy
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Truman Capote is really an interesting cat.
— Steve Earle
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Truman Capote was a magical, beautiful writer.
— Lisa Unger
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Before Truman Capote, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously.
— Gerald Clarke
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