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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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New Orleans
Louisiana
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Oh Jesus God we did belong to each other. He was mine.
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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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Talent is a valued tormentor.
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Lively, too. Talky as a jaybird. With something smart to say on every subject: better than the radio.
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But, my dear, so few things are fulfilled: what are most lives but a series of incompleted episodes? 'We work in the dark, we do what we can, we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task...' It is wanting to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something.
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It's bad enough in life to do without something YOU want but confound it, what gets my goat is not being able to give somebody something you want THEM to have.
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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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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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There is no shame — having a dirty face — the shame comes when you keep it dirty.
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I just live one day at a time. That's my new theory in life.
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Shoot, boy, the country's just fulla folks what knows everything, and don't understand nothing, just fullofem.
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I think the only person a writer has an obligation to is himself. If what I write doesn't fulfill something in me, if I don't honestly feel it's the best I can do, then I'm miserable.
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I was terribly sure trees and flowers were the same as birds or people. That they thought things and talked among themselves. And we could hear them if we really tried. It was just a matter of emptying your head of all other sounds. Being very quiet and listening very hard. Sometimes I still believe that. But one can never get quiet enough.
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I know the next best thing is often the very best.
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Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town.
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I'll pay you a million dollars if you tell your life story for true.
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