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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.
Truman Capote
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Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
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Most of life is so dull it is not worth discussing, and it is dull at all ages. When we change our brand of cigarette, move to a new neighborhood, subscribe to a different newspaper, fall in and out of love, we are protesting in ways both frivolous and deep against the not to be diluted dullness of day-to-day living.
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She took off her dark glasses and squinted at me. It was as though her eyes were shattered prisms, the dots of blue and gray and green like broken bits of sparkle.
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I'm sure Proust was a big bore.
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Before birth yes, what time was it then? A time like now, and when they were dead, it would be still like now: these trees, that sky, this earth, those acorn seeds, sun and wind, all the same, while they, with dust-turned hearts, change only.
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The true beloveds of this world are in their lover's eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends, a child's Sunday, lost voices, one's favorite suit, autumn and all seasons, memory, yes, it being the earth and water of existence, memory.
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I've never worked for a newspaper. I've had some very bad reviews in newspapers.
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Gasping for breath, the body still battling for life.
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Those fellows, they're always crying over killers. Never a thought for the victims.
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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'll never get used to anything. Anybody that does they might as well be dead.
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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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Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
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I live in Brooklyn. By choice. Those ignorant of its allures are entitled to wonder why.
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The feeble-minded, the neurotic, the criminal, perhaps, also, the artist, have unpredictability and perverted innocence in common.
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Work is the only device I know of.
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There was an American girl, Priscilla Johnson. She worked for U.P. in Moscow. She knew [John] Kennedy, and she met [Lee Harvey] Oswald around the same time I did. But I can tell you someĀthing else almost as curious.
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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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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 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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Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
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