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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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There is nobody in the world that you can't get if you really concentrate on it, if you really want them. You've got to want it to the exclusion of everything else.
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The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His work means nothing, otherwise. It has no meaning.
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I don't use a typewriter, I write longhand, with a pencil. Essentially I'm a horizontal writer. I think better when I'm lying down.
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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 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 don't mean I'd mind being rich and famous. That's very much on my schedule, and someday I'll try to get around to it but if it happens, I'd like to have my ego tagging along. I want to still be me when I wake up one fine morning and have breakfast at Tiffany's.
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I don't mean I'd mind being rich and famous. That's very much on my schedule and someday I'll try to get around to it.
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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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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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would you reach in the drawer there and give me my purse. A girl doesn't read this sort of thing without her lipstick.
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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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Oh, I adore to cook. It makes me feel so mindless in a worthwhile way.
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I know the next best thing is often the very best.
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Let's take everything just as it is.
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When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely.
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I think to be a good teacher you need an enormous amount of patience and I'm a very impatient person.
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Hot weather opens the skull of a city, exposing its white brain, and its heart of nerves, which sizzle like the wires inside a lightbulb. And there exudes a sour extra-human smell that makes the very stone seem flesh-alive, webbed and pulsing.
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The more you know about something, the harder it becomes. You become more and more of a perfectionist. I think it's a curse... It's a form of illness!
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You can do films for the fun of it, or the thrill of it, but certain films you can't do unless there's something driving you, something you have a passion for that will pull you through.
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When I am writing, I try to do it five hours a day but I spend about two of those just fooling around.
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