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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
Truman Capote
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Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
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That isn't writing at all, it's typing.
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Most of life is so dull it is not worth discussing, and it is dull at all ages. When we change our brand of cigarette, move to a new neighborhood, subscribe to a different newspaper, fall in and out of love, we are protesting in ways both frivolous and deep against the not to be diluted dullness of day-to-day living.
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I don't want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together.
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She took off her dark glasses and squinted at me. It was as though her eyes were shattered prisms, the dots of blue and gray and green like broken bits of sparkle.
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I've got something inside of me, peasantlike and stubborn, and I'm in it till the end of the race.
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I just live one day at a time. That's my new theory in life.
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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.
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Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.
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I always write the end of everything first. I always write the last chapters of my books before I write the beginning....Then I go back to the beginning. I mean, it's always nice to know where you're going is my theory.
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Mick Jagger is about as sexy as a pissing toad.
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Rusty thinks I should smoke marijuana, and I did for a while, but it only makes me giggle.
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She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox.
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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Of course, at their best, movies are anti-literature and, as a medium, belong not to writers, not to actors, but to directors.
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I couldn't understand a sense of unease that multiplied until I could hear my heart beating.
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Reading dreams. That's what started her walking down the road. Every day she'd walk a little further: a mile, and come home. Two miles, and come home. One day she just kept on.
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I'll never get used to anything. Anybody that does they might as well be dead.
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When I'm writing, I never write more than four hours a day.
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Work is the only device I know of.
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There is no shame — having a dirty face — the shame comes when you keep it dirty.
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