"You can't blame a writer for what the characters say."

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Source : Lawrence Grobel, Truman Capote (1985). “Conversations with Capote”, E P Dutton

Truman Capote

#Character Quotes #Writing Quotes #Fearless Quotes

“The Great Way has no gate; / there are a thousand paths to it. / If you pass through the barrier, / you walk the universe alone.”
“The president is the high priest of what sociologist Robert Bellah calls the 'American civil religion.' The president must invoke the name of God (though not Jesus), glorify America's heroes and history,quote its sacred texts (the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution), and perform the transubstantiation of pluribus unum.”
“Anytime you strike the drums, you have to be aware that you're creating a musical event.”
“I think that nothing is so important for freedom as recognizing in the law each individualâ€™s natural right to property, and giving individuals a sense that they own something that theyâ€™re responsible for, that they have control over, and that they can dispose of.”
“Sometimes I need to reject the music proposed for my songs because the musicians misunderstand that the Fanny Crosby who once wrote for the people in the saloons has merely changed the lyrics. Oh my no. The church must never sing it's songs to the melodies of the world.”
“Both Averill and Bayar were like actors speaking lines for their audience and not to each other.”
“I just want to try everything. I want to see how good I can be, the best I can be at what I'm doing. I want to do everything. You know? I want to be in a musical. I want to do everything. I want to try and sing.”
“What a treasure of awesome sights and attractions our country has.”

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