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A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traitor to his class. It is middle-class people who, quite mistakenly, imagine that a lively pursuit of the latest in reading and painting will advance their status in the world.
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I think Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him.
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To paraphrase Truman Capote, finishing a novel is like taking a child out behind the house and shooting it. To which I would hasten to add, that makes critics a bit like stranger who come along later to piss on the corpse.
Caitlín R. Kiernan
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Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.
Ernest Bramah
Truman Capote
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Born:
September 30, 1924
Died:
August 25, 1984
(aged 59)
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