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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.

Truman Capote

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Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
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[L]ove, having no geography, knows no boundaries.
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If you can't be friends with a lover, then forget it. It's not going to work.
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I've lived a lot in communist countries and they're intensely interested in money. I think they are more interested in money than capitalists are. They're the most materialistic people in the world. What they're actually living for is material things. The irony of that is that in communist countries there isn't anything to buy.
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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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Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town.
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Here is a hall without exit, a tunnel without end.
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I dream of eagles and bring forth sparrows.
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[T]he army of wrongness rampant in the world might as well march over me.
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My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.
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