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Truman Capote
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Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
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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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I know the next best thing is often the very best.
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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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I'm sure Proust was a big bore.
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Half the people who snuff people, that's what they want: recognition. Get their picture in the paper.
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Work is the only device I know of.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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I'll never get used to anything. Anybody that does they might as well be dead.
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One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from which it's going to be told.
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Just remember: If one bird carried every grain of sand, grain by grain, across the ocean, by the time he got them all on the other side, that would only be the beginning of eternity.
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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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I also write the last paragraph or page of a story first. That way I always know what I'm working towards.
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I never had a rejection slip in my life.
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I've never had an affair with somebody who wasn't at the same time a very good friend of mine, if you see what I mean.
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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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Rusty thinks I should smoke marijuana, and I did for a while, but it only makes me giggle.
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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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Jay Sebring cut my hair a couple of times.
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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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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