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Truman Capote
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Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
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Love should be allowed. I’m all for it. Now that I’ve got a pretty good idea what it is.
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What we want most is to be held...and told..that everything (everything is a funny thing, is baby milk and papa's eyes, is roaring logs on a cold morning, is hoot owls and the boy who makes you cry after school, is mama's long hair, is being afraid and twisted faces on the bedroom wall)...is going to be alright.
Truman Capote
I dream of eagles and bring forth sparrows.
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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.
Truman Capote
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.
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Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
Truman Capote
I never had a rejection slip in my life.
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Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town.
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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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He’d always been willing to confess his faults, for, by admitting them, it was as if he made them no longer exist.
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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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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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I've always seen myself as a winner, even as a kid. If I hadn't, I just might have gone down the drain a couple of times. I've got something inside of me, peasantlike and stubborn, and I'm in it 'til the end of the race.
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That isn't writing at all, it's typing.
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The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
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Good writing is rewriting.
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A disquieting loneliness came into my life, but it induced no hunger for friends of longer acquaintance: they seemed now like a salt-free, sugarless diet.
Truman Capote
Let's take everything just as it is.
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But mostly they were lies I told it wasn't my fault, I couldn't remember, because it was as though I'd been to one of those supernatural castles visited by characters in legends: once away, you do not remember, all that is left is the ghostly echo of haunting wonder.
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It's bad enough in life to do without something YOU want but confound it, what gets my goat is not being able to give somebody something you want THEM to have.
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