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Clocks indeed must have their sacrifice: what is death but an offering to time and eternity?
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
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All writing, all art, is an act of faith. If one tries to contribute to human understanding, how can that be called decadent? It's like saying a declaration of love is an act of decadence. Any work of art, provide it springs from a sincere motivation to further understanding between people, is an act of faith and therefore is an act of love.
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If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there's no point in it....for me, every act of the art of solving a mystery.
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I always felt that nobody was going to understand me, going to understand what I felt about things. I guess that's why I started writing. At least on paper I could put down what I thought.
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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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Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me pegged, because of the way I am, the way I talk. And they're always wrong.
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I am always drawn back to places where I have lived, the houses and their neighborhoods.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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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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But I'm not a saint yet. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm homosexual. I'm a genius.
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Oh, I adore to cook. It makes me feel so mindless in a worthwhile way.
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One always likes one's latest book best. That's a natural feeling.
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I've never been a teacher in my life.
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I used to spend all of my time projecting. I was never in the moment. It was always tomorrow or next week or two months from now. That was one of the reasons I always had this sense of anxiety.
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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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I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about.
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