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Truman Capote

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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.


— Truman Capote


#flavor #gives #success

It may be normal, darling; but I'd rather be natural.


— Truman Capote


#nature

He loved her, he loved her, and until he'd loved her she had never minded being alone....


— Truman Capote


#love

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


#alcoholism #confession #music

You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.


— Truman Capote


#heartbreak

Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.


— Truman Capote


#beginning #seasons #spring #spring

It’s better to look at the sky than live there


— Truman Capote


#love

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.


— Truman Capote


#act #badly #good #life is a #moderately

You can't blame a writer for what the characters say.


— Truman Capote


#character

I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.


— Truman Capote


#new-york-city #love






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Did you know about Truman Capote?

Carson bought a crypt at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles. Forster but had ignored the author's homosexuality. Capote's will provided that after Dunphy's death a literary trust would be establiTruman Capoted sustained by revenues from Capote's works to fund various literary prizes fellowships and scholarships including the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in Memory of Newton Arvin commemorating not only Capote but also his friend Newton Arvin the Smith College professor and critic who lost his job after his homosexuality was exposed.

Truman Streckfus Persons (September 30 1924 – August 25 1984) known as Truman Capote (pron. In the 1970s he maintained his celebrity status by appearing on television talk shows. He had discovered his calling as a writer by the age of 11 and for the rest of his childhood he honed his writing ability.

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