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You can't blame a writer for what the characters say.
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 couldn't understand a sense of unease that multiplied until I could hear my heart beating.
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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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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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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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June, July, all through the warm months she hibernated like a winter animal who did not know spring had come and gone.
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Leave it to me: I'm always top banana in the shock department.
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Any work of art, provided 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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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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There is really no practical help that one can offer: it is a matter of self-discovery, of one's own conviction, or working with one's own work your style is what seems natural to you. It is a long process of discovery, one that never ends. I am working at it, and will be as long as I live.
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She had only one flaw. She was perfect, otherwise whe was perfect.
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I don't want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together.
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There is no shame — having a dirty face — the shame comes when you keep it dirty.
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