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I thought that Mr. Clutter was a very nice gentleman. I thought so right up to the moment that I cut his throat.
Truman Capote
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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.
Maya Angelou
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And since gin to artifice bears the same relation as tears to mascara, her attractions at once dissembled.
Truman Capote
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I'm one of the world's greatest pencil sharpeners.
Truman Capote
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Brazil was beastly but Buenos Aires the best. Not Tiffany's, but almost.
Truman Capote
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Imagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in.
Truman Capote
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I feel that all a writer has is his own experience.
Truman Capote
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New York is a diamond iceberg floating in river water.
Truman Capote
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If you happen to capture my imagination for some reason and I decide to write about you and you don't like what I wrote about you, which is entirely possible, then yes, I'm a dangerous writer.
Truman Capote
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She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox. In this case, as opposed to the scrupulous method of good taste and scientific grooming, the trick had been worked by exaggerating defects she'd made them ornamental by admitting them boldly.
Truman Capote
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Drugs have been in the game for a long time. They were there when I was in college, and even in high school. It's in life. It's in business. It's everywhere.
Michael Jordan
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I want to still be me when I wake up one fine morning and have breakfast at Tiffany´s.
Truman Capote
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Home is where you feel at home. I'm still looking.
Truman Capote
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I'm not a philosopher.
Truman Capote
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I'm not a character in any of my books.
Truman Capote
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The U.S. prosecution service is eating at the soul of the American republic. It is an absolute danger to everyone.
Conrad Black
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Democracy comes naturally to him who is habituated normally to yield willing obedience to all laws, human or divine.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The more you know about something, the harder it becomes. You become more and more of a perfectionist. I think it's a curse... It's a form of illness!
Truman Capote
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I don't mean I'd mind being rich and famous. That's very much on my schedule and someday I'll try to get around to it.
Truman Capote
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One always likes one's latest book best. That's a natural feeling.
Truman Capote
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If you have a single narrator, a person like an I - 'I' did this and 'I' did that - it automatically solves the most difficult problem in writing.
Truman Capote
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The past is no more and the future is not yet. The only right person is one who lives moment to moment, whose arrow is directed to the moment, who is always here and now wherever he is, his whole consciousness, his whole being, is involved in the reality of here and in the reality of now.
Rajneesh
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Why do we remember the past, but not the future?
Stephen Hawking
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You ask me why I spend my life writing? Do I find entertainment? Is it worthwhile? Above all, does it pay? If not, then, is there a reason?... I write only because there is a voice within me. That will not be still.
Sylvia Plath
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