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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
Truman Capote
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Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
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But I'm not a saint yet. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm homosexual. I'm a genius.
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I've been working, working, working, and you know, sometimes you look back at your work and you see that it just isn't any good.
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At one time I used to keep notebooks with outlines for stories. But I found doing this somehow deadened the idea in my imagination. If the notion is good enough, if it truly belongs to you, then you can't forget it-it will haunt you till it's written.
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Whatever relationship you have, man or woman, you have to be very attentive and you have to be a very good friend to them regardless of what they do.
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My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.
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The instant she saw the letter she squinted her eyes and bent her lips in a tough tiny smile that advanced her age immeasurably. Darling, she instructed me, 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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The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His work means nothing, otherwise. It has no meaning.
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I've never worked for a newspaper. I've had some very bad reviews in newspapers.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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Leave it to me: I'm always top banana in the shock department.
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To wake up one morning and feel that I was a last a grown-up person, emptied of resentment, vengeful thoughts and other wasteful childish emotions. To find myself, in other words, an adult. Truman Capote
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