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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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When seriously explored, the short story seems to me the most difficult and disciplining form of prose writing extant. Whatever control and technique I may have I owe entirely to my training in this medium.
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No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. It scraped me right down to the marrow of my bones. It nearly killed me. I think, in a way, it did kill me.
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I've tried to believe, but I don't, I can't, and there's no use pretending.
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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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I think I would have written five times as much as I've written if I didn't have this terrible sense of perfection.
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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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Most contemporary novelists, especially the American and the French, are too subjective, mesmerized by private demons theyre enraptured by their navels and confined by a view that ends with their own toes.
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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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It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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Wrinkles and bones, white hair and diamonds: I can't wait.
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Clocks indeed must have their sacrifice: what is death but an offering to time and eternity?
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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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It takes a lot of bad writing to get to a little good writing.
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It may be normal, darling but I'd rather be natural.
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