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Good writing is rewriting.
Truman Capote
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Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
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You can't blame a writer for what the characters say.
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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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You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.
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A beautiful day with the buoyancy of a bird.
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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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A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
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I would have liked to have known Oscar Wilde because I think he must have been very amusing and entertaining.
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There is such an animal as a nonstylist, only they're not writers - they're typists.
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How do I look so young? Quite simple: a complete vegetable diet, 12 hours sleep a night, and lots and lots of make-up.
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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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I know the next best thing is often the very best.
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I will say only that all a writer has to work with is the material he has gathered as the result of his own endeavor and observations, and he cannot be denied the right to use it. Condemn, but not deny.
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Norman Mailer thinks William Burroughs is a genius, which I think is ludicrous beyond words. I don't think William Burroughs has an ounce of talent.
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I just live one day at a time. That's my new theory in life.
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But it's Sunday, Mr. Bell. Clocks are slow on Sundays.
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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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I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.
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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've been working, working, working, and you know, sometimes you look back at your work and you see that it just isn't any good.
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You can do films for the fun of it, or the thrill of it, but certain films you can't do unless there's something driving you, something you have a passion for that will pull you through.
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