#capote

Before Truman Capote, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously. ↗

— Gerald Clarke

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Truman Capote was a pop figure, but it wasn't until he went on David Susskind's show and had that extraordinary voice and manner that everyone could imitate, that he really took off as a figure. ↗

— James Wolcott

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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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I am the heterosexual Truman Capote. ↗

— Joseph Epstein

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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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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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I don't think Capote loved Smith. But he did make a deep connection. It upset some people, because that had never been the approach to journalistic crime writing, to look into the mind of the killer. ↗

— Gerald Clarke

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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 me. ↗

— George Plimpton

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