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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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New Orleans
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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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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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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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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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She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox.
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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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I think most people are very, very much motivated by sex - greed, sex, and hunger.
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I loved her enough to forget myself, my self pitying despairs, and be content that something she thought happy was going to happen.
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I'm very scared, Buster. Yes, at last. Because it could go on forever. Not knowing what's yours until you've thrown it away.
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Talent is a valued tormentor.
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Jay Sebring cut my hair a couple of times.
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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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I also write the last paragraph or page of a story first. That way I always know what I'm working towards.
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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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The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
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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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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
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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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