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Truman Capote

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New York is a diamond iceberg floating in river water.


— Truman Capote


#new-york-city

She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox.


— Truman Capote


#paradox #ugliness #beauty

I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.


— Truman Capote


#eleven #honors #i #lovely #sixteen

If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there's no point in it. . . . for me, every act of art is the act of solving a mystery.


— Truman Capote


#creativity #writing #art

Then starting home, he walked toward the trees, and under them, leaving behind him the big sky, the whisper of wind voices in the wind-bent wheat.


— Truman Capote


#home

A person ought to be able to marry men or women... . No, I'm serious. Love should be allowed. I'm all for it. Now that I've got a pretty good idea what it is." - Holly Golightly


— Truman Capote


#love

Good luck: and believe me, dearest Doc -- it's better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear.


— Truman Capote


#life #reality #dreams

I'm praying for you, Mary. I want you to live forever.


— Truman Capote


#music

Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.


— Truman Capote


#breathe #good #hardly #how #i

My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.


— Truman Capote


#life #lonely #major #regret #unnecessarily






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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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