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She had only one flaw. She was perfect, otherwise whe was perfect.
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 think the only person a writer has an obligation to is himself. If what I write doesn't fulfill something in me, if I don't honestly feel it's the best I can do, then I'm miserable.
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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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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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I'll never get used to anything. Anybody that does they might as well be dead.
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I despise people who can't control themselves.
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I would have liked to have known Oscar Wilde because I think he must have been very amusing and entertaining.
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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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The wind is us-- it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.
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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
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There were hints of sunrise on the rim of the sky, yet it was still dark, and the traces of morning color were like goldfish swimming in ink.
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First, a gorgeous breakfast: just everything you can imagine from flapjacks and fried squirrel to hominy grits and honey in the comb...we're so impatient to get at the presents we can't eat a mouthful.
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I told you: you can make yourself love anybody.
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My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.
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