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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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Technically I feel total fluidity in writing. I feel there's nothing technically that I can't do the way a certain sort of pianist feels that. But that doesn't mean it comes easily. It doesn't.
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I think to be a good teacher you need an enormous amount of patience and I'm a very impatient person.
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I'll pay you a million dollars if you tell your life story for true.
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I've lived a lot in communist countries and they're intensely interested in money. I think they are more interested in money than capitalists are. They're the most materialistic people in the world. What they're actually living for is material things. The irony of that is that in communist countries there isn't anything to buy.
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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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Imagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.
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But he does look stupid.' Yearning. Not stupid. He wants awfully to be on the inside staring out: anybody with their nose pressed against a glass is liable to look stupid.
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It should take you about four seconds to walk from here to the door. I'll give you two.
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All writing, all art, is an act of faith. If one tries to contribute to human understanding, how can that be called decadent? It's like saying a declaration of love is an act of decadence. Any work of art, provide 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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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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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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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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He’d always been willing to confess his faults, for, by admitting them, it was as if he made them no longer exist.
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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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I've never been a teacher in my life.
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When I make fried chicken I always serve masses and masses of fresh mangos. It's a great combination.
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I never had a rejection slip in my life.
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I've always seen myself as a winner, even as a kid. If I hadn't, I just might have gone down the drain a couple of times. I've got something inside of me, peasantlike and stubborn, and I'm in it 'til the end of the race.
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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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