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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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Past certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder it is best done when one is a child after that, and if you are lucky, you will find a bridge of childhood and walk across it.
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Then why does Kenneth Anger wear a picture locket on a chain around his neck? On one side of the locket there is a picture of you on the other there is an image of a frog with an inscription: Bobby Beausoleil changed into a frog by Kenneth Anger. A voodoo amulet, so to say.
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I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart. Which isn't being pious. Just practical. Cancer may cool you, but the other's sure to.
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I never had a rejection slip in my life.
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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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I was terribly sure trees and flowers were the same as birds or people. That they thought things and talked among themselves. And we could hear them if we really tried. It was just a matter of emptying your head of all other sounds. Being very quiet and listening very hard. Sometimes I still believe that. But one can never get quiet enough.
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Personally, I rather think that if you're not creative you've got a problem on your hands. If you are creative you've got a double problem.
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Still, when all is said, somewhere one must belong: even the soaring falcon returns to its master's wrist.
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Lively, too. Talky as a jaybird. With something smart to say on every subject: better than the radio.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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You can't blame a writer for what the characters say.
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That's all a writer has to write about - what he sees and hears and what not.
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Intelligence alone can't make a good writer and style alone can't make a good writer - that is, not a really important or significant writer - but the two things together make a really good writer.
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Love should be allowed. I’m all for it. Now that I’ve got a pretty good idea what it is.
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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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In California everyone goes to a therapist, is a therapist, or is a therapist going to a therapist.
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Leave it to me: I'm always top banana in the shock department.
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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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