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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
Actor
Artist
Author
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Journalist
Novelist
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Truman Streckfus Persons
Truman Garcia Capote
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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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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot 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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Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
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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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At one time I used to keep notebooks with outlines for stories. But I found doing this somehow deadened the idea in my imagination. If the notion is good enough, if it truly belongs to you, then you can't forget it-it will haunt you till it's written.
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Love should be allowed. I’m all for it. Now that I’ve got a pretty good idea what it is.
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Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.
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our real fears are the sounds of footsteps walking in the corridors of our minds, and the anxieties, the phantom floatings, they create.
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