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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

Truman Capote

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Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
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I despise people who can't control themselves.
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I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.
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I just live one day at a time. That's my new theory in life.
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She sounds the way bananas taste.
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Oh Jesus God we did belong to each other. He was mine.
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I was terribly sure trees and flowers were the same as birds or people. That they thought things and talked among themselves. And we could hear them if we really tried. It was just a matter of emptying your head of all other sounds. Being very quiet and listening very hard. Sometimes I still believe that. But one can never get quiet enough.
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A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.
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The instant she saw the letter she squinted her eyes and bent her lips in a tough tiny smile that advanced her age immeasurably. Darling, she instructed me, would you reach in the drawer there and give me my purse. A girl doesn't read this sort of thing without her lipstick.
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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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That's all a writer has to write about - what he sees and hears and what not.
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Then why does Kenneth Anger wear a picture locket on a chain around his neck? On one side of the locket there is a picture of you on the other there is an image of a frog with an inscription: Bobby Beausoleil changed into a frog by Kenneth Anger. A voodoo amulet, so to say.
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Lively, too. Talky as a jaybird. With something smart to say on every subject: better than the radio.
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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