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Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
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You can't blame a writer for what the characters say.
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Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.
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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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I'm sure Proust was a big bore.
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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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That's not writing, that's typing
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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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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'll pay you a million dollars if you tell your life story for true.
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I told you: you can make yourself love anybody.
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I'll never get used to anything. Anybody that does they might as well be dead.
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I never had a rejection slip in my life.
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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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I'm very scared, Buster. Yes, at last. Because it could go on forever. Not knowing what's yours until you've thrown it away.
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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.
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When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely.
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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all his prayers of the past had been simple concrete requests: God, give me a bicycle, a knife with seven blades, a box of oil paints. Only how, how, could you say something so indefinite, so meaningless as this: God, let me be loved.
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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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She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox.
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