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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
Truman Capote
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Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
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Oh Jesus God we did belong to each other. He was mine.
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When seriously explored, the short story seems to me the most difficult and disciplining form of prose writing extant. Whatever control and technique I may have I owe entirely to my training in this medium.
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My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.
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[Y]outh is hardly human: it can't be, for the young never believe they will die...especially would they never believe that death comes, and often, in forms other than the natural one.
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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She had only one flaw. She was perfect, otherwise whe was perfect.
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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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Traveling wears me out.
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