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I am the heterosexual Truman Capote. -- Joseph Epstein
Truman Capote is really an interesting cat. -- Steve Earle
Truman Capote was a magical, beautiful writer. -- Lisa Unger
Before Truman Capote, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously. -- Gerald Clarke
My dream dinner party guests would be Ethel Kennedy, Truman Capote and Hunter S. Thompson. -- Dylan Penn
I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers. -- Kiran Desai
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little
My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man. -- Alvin Ailey
I would go to the all-night grocery store and pretend that I was at Studio 54 because it was the only place open all night. Truman Capote in the frozen foods. Andy Warhol over in vegetables. -- James St. James
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
Truman Capote famously claimed to have nearly absolute recall of dialogue and used his prodigious memory as an excuse never to take notes or use a tape recorder, but I suspect his memory claims were just a useful cover to invent dialogue whole cloth. -- Joshua Foer
I started to work at the Colony in March 1958. I remember my first day because the telephone started to ring, and it was Sinatra, three for lunch, his usual table; Onassis, two for lunch, usual table; the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Leland Hayward, Truman Capote, all wanting their usual tables. -- Sirio Maccioni
Harper Lee and Truman Capote became friends as next-door neighbors in the late 1920s, when they were about kindergarten age. From the start, they recognized in each other "an apartness," as Capote later expressed it; and both loved reading. When Lee's father gave them an old Underwood typewriter, they began writing original stories together. -- Charles J. Shields
Truman Capote has made lying an art. A minor art. -- Gore Vidal
[Truman Capote] was not only just selling his writing, but he was selling himself as a person. -- Philip Seymour Hoffman
[ New York ] is a place that worships incompetence particularly if it's combined with energy and paranoid self-confidence. Only in a city like New York could Truman Capote have made it, or John Simon. -- Gore Vidal
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. -- Mary McCarthy
With "Good Night, and Good Luck," I think it's kind of obvious what [Truman Capote]'s getting at there, and the importance of how it's playing out today, that is journalism doing, are the journalists doing their job, are they being the other checks and balances in our country that the way that obviously Edward R. Murrow was back then. -- Philip Seymour Hoffman
I remember writing 'The One I Can't Have' at the kitchen table. I was looking at a picture of Truman Capote with Marilyn Monroe and that's where I started. It doesn't make any sense because he was gay, but it was just the idea of the short guy and the beautiful blonde out of his league. That's where I started, but very quickly it became about me. -- Teddy Thompson
Are there any writers on the literary scene whom I consider truly great? Yes: Truman Capote. -- Truman Capote
Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot". ~Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1958, spoken by the character Holly Golightly -- Truman Capote
To wake up one morning and feel that I was a last a grown-up person, emptied of resentment, vengeful thoughts and other wasteful childish emotions. To find myself, in other words, an adult. Truman Capote -- Truman Capote
It's hard these days to have a conversation, at least it is for me, about [Truman]Capote without "Good Night, and Good Luck" coming up in the same conversation. -- Tavis Smiley

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