Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.

Truman Capote

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Since each story presents its own technical problems, obviously one can't generalize about them on a two-times-two-equals-four basis. Finding the right form for your story is simply to realize the most natural way of telling the story. The test of whether or not a writer has defined the natural shape of his story is just this: After reading it, can you imagine it differently, or does it silence your imagination and seem to you absolute and final? As an orange is final. As an orange is something nature has made just right.

Truman Capote


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would you reach in the drawer there and give me my purse. A girl doesn't read this sort of thing without her lipstick.

Truman Capote


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

Truman Capote

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It is no shame to have a dirty face- the shame comes when you keep it dirty.

Truman Capote

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If you sweep a house, and tend its fires and fill its stove, and there is love in you all the years you are doing this, then you and that house are married, that house is yours.

Truman Capote

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It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.

Truman Capote


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It's redundant to die in Los Angeles.

Truman Capote


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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.

Truman Capote

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I don't want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together.

Truman Capote


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