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You don't run out on people you run out on yourself.
Truman Capote
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Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
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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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we don't belong to each other: he's an independent, and so am I.
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But mostly they were lies I told it wasn't my fault, I couldn't remember, because it was as though I'd been to one of those supernatural castles visited by characters in legends: once away, you do not remember, all that is left is the ghostly echo of haunting wonder.
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I've never worked for a newspaper. I've had some very bad reviews in newspapers.
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The average personality re-shapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete overhaul-desirable or not, it is a natural thing that we should change.
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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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Hulga the whole while hollering like a half-slaughtered hog. (Attention, students of literature! Alliteration - have you noticed? - is my least vice.)
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I haven't anything against whores, except this: some of them may have an honest tongue but they all have dishonest hearts.
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You call yourself a free spirit, a wild thing, and you're terrified somebody's gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it's not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somali-land. It's wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself.
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Most people who become suddenly famous overnight will find that they lose practically eighty percent of their friends. Your old friends just can't stand it for some reason.
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I feel that all a writer has is his own experience.
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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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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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That's the difference between the serious artist and the craftsman--the craftsman can take material and because of his abilities do a professional job of it. The serious artist, like Proust, is like an object caught by a wave and swept to shore. He's obsessed by his material it's like a venom working in his blood and the art is the antidote.
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I'll wager at the end a body realizes the Lord has already shown Himself. That things as they are -- her hand circles in a gesture that gathers clouds and kites and grass and Queenie pawing earth over her bone - just what they've always seen, was seeing Him. As for me, I could leave the world with today in my eyes.
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all his prayers of the past had been simple concrete requests: God, give me a bicycle, a knife with seven blades, a box of oil paints. Only how, how, could you say something so indefinite, so meaningless as this: God, let me be loved.
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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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you got to want it to be good, and I don't want it.
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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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With one exception everybody who has ever been involved with me is still a great friend of mine.
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