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It takes a lot of bad writing to get to a little good writing.
Truman Capote
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Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
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I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.
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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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Mick Jagger is about as sexy as a pissing toad.
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I'll pay you a million dollars if you tell your life story for true.
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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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[Y]outh is hardly human: it can't be, for the young never believe they will die...especially would they never believe that death comes, and often, in forms other than the natural one.
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The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
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My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.
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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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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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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 just live one day at a time. That's my new theory in life.
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I suppose you think I'm very brazen. Or très fou. Or something.' Not at all.' She seemed disappointed. 'Yes, you do. Everybody does. I don't mind. It's useful.
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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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First, a gorgeous breakfast: just everything you can imagine from flapjacks and fried squirrel to hominy grits and honey in the comb...we're so impatient to get at the presents we can't eat a mouthful.
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