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| Truman Capote
"They're going to win a pennant or something. That's nice."A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet. Fame is only good for one thing-they will cash your check in a small town. Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it. Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends. Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call out there. I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it would be true from beginning to end. Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life. Mick Jagger moves like a parody between a majorette girl and Fred Astaire. Most contemporary novelists, especially the American and the French, are too subjective, mesmerized by private demons; they're enraptured by their navels and confined by a view that ends with their own toes. She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a flamingo. Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy. When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely. |
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