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The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His work means nothing, otherwise. It has no meaning.
Truman Capote
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Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
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Personally, I rather think that if you're not creative you've got a problem on your hands. If you are creative you've got a double problem.
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Of many magics, one is watching a beloved sleep: free of eyes and awareness, you for a sweet moment hold the heart of him helpless, he is then all, and however irrationally, you have trusted him to be, man-pure, child-tender.
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That's the question: is truth an illusion, or is illusion truth, or are they essentially the same? Myself, I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.
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At one time I used to keep notebooks with outlines for stories. But I found doing this somehow deadened the idea in my imagination. If the notion is good enough, if it truly belongs to you, then you can't forget it-it will haunt you till it's written.
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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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Whatever relationship you have, man or woman, you have to be very attentive and you have to be a very good friend to them regardless of what they do.
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But it's Sunday, Mr. Bell. Clocks are slow on Sundays.
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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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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How do I look so young? Quite simple: a complete vegetable diet, 12 hours sleep a night, and lots and lots of make-up.
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The wind is us-- it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.
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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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If Francoise Sagan hadn't written a book called A Chateau in Sweden, I would certainly write a short story called A Chateau in Puerto Rico. And I may yet.
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I don't want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together.
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I've been working, working, working, and you know, sometimes you look back at your work and you see that it just isn't any good.
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Talent, and genius as well, is like a grain of pearl sand shifting about in the creative mind. A valued tormentor.
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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.
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there is only one unpardonable sin--deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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It's redundant to die in Los Angeles.
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