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Truman Capote Biography

Truman Garcia Capote (/ˈtruːmən kəˈpoʊti/; born Truman Streckfus Persons, September 30, 1924 – August 25, 1984) was an American novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and actor. Many of Capote's short stories, novels, plays, and nonfiction are recognized as literary classics, including the novella Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958) and the true crime novel In Cold Blood (1966), which he labeled a "nonfiction novel". At least 20 films and television dramas have been produced from Capote novels, stories, and plays.

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Most people don't find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don't even know they have great talent.

Creativity, Genius, Know, People

At one time I used to keep notebooks with outlines for stories. But I found doing this somehow deadened the idea in my imagination. If the notion is good enough, if it truly belongs to you, then you can't forget it-it will haunt you till it's written.

Deadened, Enough, Found, Ideas, Imagination, Notebook

Hulga the whole while hollering like a half-slaughtered hog. (Attention, students of literature! Alliteration - have you noticed? - is my least vice. )

Alliteration, Attention, Half, Hollering, Students, Vices

I think my greatest talent really is for friendship.

Friendship, Greatest, Talent, Think, Thinking

That's not writing, that's typing

Art, Entertainment, Typing, Writing

Then why does Kenneth Anger wear a picture locket on a chain around his neck? On one side of the locket there is a picture of you; on the other there is an image of a frog with an inscription: "Bobby Beausoleil changed into a frog by Kenneth Anger. " A voodoo amulet, so to say.

Doe, Frog, Frogs, Image, Neck, Sides

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

Believe, Editing, Pencil, Scissors, Writing

I think to be a good teacher you need an enormous amount of patience and I'm a very impatient person.

Enormous, Needs, Patience, Teacher, Thinking

What I do requires fantastic concentration. . . but you can't be totally alone, or you lose all contact with reality, so even when I'm engrossed and secluded, Jack Dunphy can be there. He's my oldest and best friend, and best critic too.

Critic, Fantastic, Mentor, Reality, Secluded

[C]locks indeed must have thier sacrifice: what is death but an offering to time and eternity?

Inspirational, Offering, Sacrifice, Thier, Time

As long as you live, there's always something waiting; and even if it's bad, and you know it's bad, what can you do? You can't stop living.

Inspirational, Living, Long, Stop, Waiting

New York is a diamond iceberg floating in river water.

Floating, Iceberg, New York, River, Rivers, Water

It snowed all week. Wheels and footsteps moved soundlessly on the street, as if the business of living continued secretly behind a pale but impenetrable curtain. In the falling quiet there was no sky or earth, only snow lifting in the wind, frosting the window glass, chilling the rooms, deadening and hushing the city. At all hours it was necessary to keep a lamp lighted, and Mrs. Miller lost track of the days: Friday was no different from Saturday and on Sunday she went to the grocery: closed, of course.

Days, Different, Fall, Friday, Lamp, Sunday

Lively, too. Talky as a jaybird. With something smart to say on every subject: better than the radio.

Jaybird, Lively, Radio, Say, Smart, Talky

In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.

Garden, Hear, Nature, Rainfall

It's like a jumble of huts in a jungle somewhere. I don't understand how you can live there. It's really, completely dead. Walk along the street, there's nothing moving. I've lived in small Spanish fishing villages which were literally sunny all day long everyday of the week, but they weren't as boring as Los Angeles.

Fishing, Lived, Long, Moving, Nothing, Villages

There's something really the matter with most people who wear tattoos. There's at least some terrible story. I know from experience that there's always something terribly flawed about people who are tattooed, above some little something that Johnny had done in the Navy, even though that's a bad sign. . . It's terrible. Psychologically it's crazy. Most people who are tattooed, it's the sign of some feeling of inferiority, they're trying to establish some macho identification for themselves.

Crazy, People, Tattoo, Though, Wear

But I know what I like. ' She smiled, and et the cat drop to the floor. 'It's like Tiffany's,'she said. 'Not that I give a hoot about jewellery. Diamonds, yes. But it's tacky to wear diamonds before you're forty; and even that's risky.

Cat, Diamonds, Drop, Giving, Said, Tacky

I guess if you're that thin and that small you don't need to take up too much space or breathe that much air. You just keep on going.

Air, Needs, Small, Space, Take, Thin

I will say only that all a writer has to work with is the material he has gathered as the result of his own endeavor and observations, and he cannot be denied the right to use it. Condemn, but not deny.

Denied, Deny, Endeavor, Results, Use, Writer

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