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Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
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Of course, at their best, movies are anti-literature and, as a medium, belong not to writers, not to actors, but to directors.
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When seriously explored, the short story seems to me the most difficult and disciplining form of prose writing extant. Whatever control and technique I may have I owe entirely to my training in this medium.
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To wake up one morning and feel that I was a last a grown-up person, emptied of resentment, vengeful thoughts and other wasteful childish emotions. To find myself, in other words, an adult. Truman Capote
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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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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Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
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That's all a writer has to write about - what he sees and hears and what not.
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In California everyone goes to a therapist, is a therapist, or is a therapist going to a therapist.
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Intelligence alone can't make a good writer and style alone can't make a good writer - that is, not a really important or significant writer - but the two things together make a really good writer.
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Some prisons don't allow guitar because the strings can be detached and used as weapons.
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I am always drawn back to places where I have lived, the houses and their neighborhoods.
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You can do films for the fun of it, or the thrill of it, but certain films you can't do unless there's something driving you, something you have a passion for that will pull you through.
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I never had a rejection slip in my life.
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Dizzy with excitement is no mere phrase.
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Norman Mailer thinks William Burroughs is a genius, which I think is ludicrous beyond words. I don't think William Burroughs has an ounce of talent.
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Gasping for breath, the body still battling for life.
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Reading dreams. That's what started her walking down the road. Every day she'd walk a little further: a mile, and come home. Two miles, and come home. One day she just kept on.
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I couldn't understand a sense of unease that multiplied until I could hear my heart beating.
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Traveling wears me out.
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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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