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Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
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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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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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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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With one exception everybody who has ever been involved with me is still a great friend of mine.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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Some prisons don't allow guitar because the strings can be detached and used as weapons.
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Mick Jagger is about as sexy as a pissing toad.
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Some cities, like wrapped boxes under Christmas trees, conceal unexpected gifts, secret delights. Some cities will always remain wrapped boxes, containers of riddles never to be solved, nor even to be seen by vacationing visitors, or, for that matter, the most inquisitive, persistent travelers.
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Never love a wild thing...If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky.
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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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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 would have liked to have known Oscar Wilde because I think he must have been very amusing and entertaining.
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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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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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I knew Lee Harvey Oswald, and I knew Jack Kennedy. The odds against that-one person knowing all four of those men-must be astounding.
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I think most people are very, very much motivated by sex - greed, sex, and hunger.
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I've never worked for a newspaper. I've had some very bad reviews in newspapers.
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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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Work is the only device I know of.
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The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman, because he'll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel.
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