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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 think I would have written five times as much as I've written if I didn't have this terrible sense of perfection.
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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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You can't blame a writer for what the characters say.
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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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I'll never get used to anything. Anybody that does they might as well be dead.
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I always felt that nobody was going to understand me, going to understand what I felt about things. I guess that's why I started writing. At least on paper I could put down what I thought.
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