"I am the heterosexual Truman Capote." — Joseph Epstein
"I am the heterosexual Truman Capote."
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46 Quotes by Joseph Epstein
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Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful…
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All men and women are born, live, suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, whether…
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A cat is the only domestic animal I know who toilet trains itself and does a damned impressive job of…
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One serious drawback about letters is that, in order to get them, one must send some out. When it comes…
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What all great teachers appear to have in common is love of their subject, an obvious satisfaction in rousing this…
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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…
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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…
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I was recently asked what it takes to become a writer. Three things, I answered: first, one must cultivate incompetence…
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I am afraid I am one of those people who continues to read in the hope of sometime discovering in…
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I really, really like writing songs. Capote wrote every day. He said that's the only way, you have to sit…
— Debbie Harry
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Capote wrote every day. He said that's the only way, you have to sit down every day and do it.
— Debbie Harry
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Capote I truly loathed. The way you might loathe an animal. A filthy animal that has found its way into…
— Gore Vidal
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Capote, of course, addressed very similar themes to Good Night and Good Luck. Both films are about determined journalists defying…
— Jon Stewart
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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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I didn't sound anything like Capote at the screen test. It was more like Bob Dylan. In his early years.…
— Toby Jones
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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…
— Joshua Foer
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I love 'Capote.' Huge fan of Philip Seymour Hoffman; if he's not my all-time favorite actor he's definitely in my…
— Chris Pratt
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I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't…
— Zadie Smith
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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…
— Truman Capote
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