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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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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.
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I live in Brooklyn. By choice. Those ignorant of its allures are entitled to wonder why.
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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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[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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Talent, and genius as well, is like a grain of pearl sand shifting about in the creative mind. A valued tormentor.
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When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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I'll pay you a million dollars if you tell your life story for true.
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Jay Sebring cut my hair a couple of times.
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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Never love a wild thing...If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky.
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Just remember: If one bird carried every grain of sand, grain by grain, across the ocean, by the time he got them all on the other side, that would only be the beginning of eternity.
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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
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Most of life is so dull it is not worth discussing, and it is dull at all ages. When we change our brand of cigarette, move to a new neighborhood, subscribe to a different newspaper, fall in and out of love, we are protesting in ways both frivolous and deep against the not to be diluted dullness of day-to-day living.
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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 prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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June, July, all through the warm months she hibernated like a winter animal who did not know spring had come and gone.
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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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