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Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
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It was the most haunting room I've ever seen. Because you know what's in it? All the left­overs, all the paraphernalia that the different condemned men had had with them in the holding cells.
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It's bad enough in life to do without something YOU want but confound it, what gets my goat is not being able to give somebody something you want THEM to have.
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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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It takes a lot of bad writing to get to a little good writing.
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There is no shame — having a dirty face — the shame comes when you keep it dirty.
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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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Talent is a valued tormentor.
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Shoot, boy, the country's just fulla folks what knows everything, and don't understand nothing, just fullofem.
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The instant she saw the letter she squinted her eyes and bent her lips in a tough tiny smile that advanced her age immeasurably. Darling, she instructed me, would you reach in the drawer there and give me my purse. A girl doesn't read this sort of thing without her lipstick.
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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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But mostly they were lies I told it wasn't my fault, I couldn't remember, because it was as though I'd been to one of those supernatural castles visited by characters in legends: once away, you do not remember, all that is left is the ghostly echo of haunting wonder.
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I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about.
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Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.
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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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A beautiful day with the buoyancy of a bird.
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Most contemporary novelists, especially the American and the French, are too subjective, mesmerized by private demons theyre enraptured by their navels and confined by a view that ends with their own toes.
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[L]ove, having no geography, knows no boundaries.
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June, July, all through the warm months she hibernated like a winter animal who did not know spring had come and gone.
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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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I know the next best thing is often the very best.
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