Gerald Clarke Quotes

#1. you understand much more about the value of a marriage when you've lost it,

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#2. Before Truman Capote, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously.

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#3. His theory was that non-fiction could be as artful as fiction.

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#4. I can tell you, from a fund of experience, that one can be taken down from the rack, closer to death than to life - and then still have the most exquisite joys ahead of one.

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#5. It's a distillation of all I know about writing: short-story writing, screenwriting, journalism - everything. There is no future in the novel, so far as I can see. I'm trying to show where writing is going to be. I may not get there, but I will point the way." In

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#6. In the writing of memoirs, as in the production of shows, too much caution causes the audience to nod and think of other channels.

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#7. In those days people moved more slowly down there, and Arch, who did just opposite, might almost have been taken for a Yankee.

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#8. Poverty is much more than a way of life," Jack later wrote. "It goes much farther than skin-deep. It's no tattoo that fades with time. Nor a brand that can be put out of mind except when faced. Poverty, if you've known it, is you.

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#9. I don't think Capote loved Smith. But he did make a deep connection. It upset some people, because that had never been the approach to journalistic crime writing, to look into the mind of the killer.

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