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I know the next best thing is often the very best.

Truman Capote

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Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
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New Orleans
Louisiana
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In California everyone goes to a therapist, is a therapist, or is a therapist going to a therapist.
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Talent, and genius as well, is like a grain of pearl sand shifting about in the creative mind. A valued tormentor.
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I will say only that all a writer has to work with is the material he has gathered as the result of his own endeavor and observations, and he cannot be denied the right to use it. Condemn, but not deny.
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Never love a wild thing...If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky.
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I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.
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Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
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I also write the last paragraph or page of a story first. That way I always know what I'm working towards.
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At one time I used to keep notebooks with outlines for stories. But I found doing this somehow deadened the idea in my imagination. If the notion is good enough, if it truly belongs to you, then you can't forget it-it will haunt you till it's written.
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Of many magics, one is watching a beloved sleep: free of eyes and awareness, you for a sweet moment hold the heart of him helpless, he is then all, and however irrationally, you have trusted him to be, man-pure, child-tender.
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I'll never get used to anything. Anybody that does they might as well be dead.
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If you can't be friends with a lover, then forget it. It's not going to work.
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When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely.
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Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
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Work is the only device I know of.
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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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The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman, because he'll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel.
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All artists are two-headed calves.
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Sicily is more beautiful than any woman.
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Some cities, like wrapped boxes under Christmas trees, conceal unexpected gifts, secret delights. Some cities will always remain wrapped boxes, containers of riddles never to be solved, nor even to be seen by vacationing visitors, or, for that matter, the most inquisitive, persistent travelers.
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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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