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you got to want it to be good, and I don't want it.

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Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
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Don't wanna sleep, don't wanna die, just wanna go a-travellin' through the pastures of the sky
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Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
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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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Still, when all is said, somewhere one must belong: even the soaring falcon returns to its master's wrist.
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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.
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Then why does Kenneth Anger wear a picture locket on a chain around his neck? On one side of the locket there is a picture of you on the other there is an image of a frog with an inscription: Bobby Beausoleil changed into a frog by Kenneth Anger. A voodoo amulet, so to say.
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But it's Sunday, Mr. Bell. Clocks are slow on Sundays.
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Technically I feel total fluidity in writing. I feel there's nothing technically that I can't do the way a certain sort of pianist feels that. But that doesn't mean it comes easily. It doesn't.
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All artists are two-headed calves.
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Most people don't find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don't even know they have great talent.
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I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch.
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If a man doesn't like baseball, then he must like horses, and if he doesn't like either of them, well, I'm in trouble anyway: he don't like girls.
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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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Time. Time. What is time? Swiss manufacture it, French hoard it, Italians squander it, Americans say it is money. Hindus say it does not exist. Know what I say? I say time is a crook.
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