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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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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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Hulga the whole while hollering like a half-slaughtered hog. (Attention, students of literature! Alliteration - have you noticed? - is my least vice.)
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Of many magics, one is watching a beloved sleep: free of eyes and awareness, you for a sweet moment hold the heart of him helpless, he is then all, and however irrationally, you have trusted him to be, man-pure, child-tender.
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I am always drawn back to places where I have lived, the houses and their neighborhoods.
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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 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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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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Every day is a new day with me. All holds are off. All contracts are forgotten.
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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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But it's Sunday, Mr. Bell. Clocks are slow on Sundays.
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