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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
Truman Streckfus Persons
Truman Garcia Capote
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Shoot, boy, the country's just fulla folks what knows everything, and don't understand nothing, just fullofem.
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When I'm writing, I never write more than four hours a day.
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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It's redundant to die in Los Angeles.
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Personally, I rather think that if you're not creative you've got a problem on your hands. If you are creative you've got a double problem.
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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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Gasping for breath, the body still battling for life.
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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 think I would have written five times as much as I've written if I didn't have this terrible sense of perfection.
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Intelligence alone can't make a good writer and style alone can't make a good writer - that is, not a really important or significant writer - but the two things together make a really good writer.
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Those fellows, they're always crying over killers. Never a thought for the victims.
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I suppose you think I'm very brazen. Or très fou. Or something.' Not at all.' She seemed disappointed. 'Yes, you do. Everybody does. I don't mind. It's useful.
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She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a Flamingo.
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Leave it to me: I'm always top banana in the shock department.
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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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I couldn't understand a sense of unease that multiplied until I could hear my heart beating.
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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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all his prayers of the past had been simple concrete requests: God, give me a bicycle, a knife with seven blades, a box of oil paints. Only how, how, could you say something so indefinite, so meaningless as this: God, let me be loved.
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She had only one flaw. She was perfect, otherwise whe was perfect.
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