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Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
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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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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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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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When I am writing, I try to do it five hours a day but I spend about two of those just fooling around.
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But it's Sunday, Mr. Bell. Clocks are slow on Sundays.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
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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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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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But I'm not a saint yet. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm homosexual. I'm a genius.
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I despise people who can't control themselves.
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A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.
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But he does look stupid.' Yearning. Not stupid. He wants awfully to be on the inside staring out: anybody with their nose pressed against a glass is liable to look stupid.
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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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The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
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Love should be allowed. I’m all for it. Now that I’ve got a pretty good idea what it is.
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All writing, all art, is an act of faith. If one tries to contribute to human understanding, how can that be called decadent? It's like saying a declaration of love is an act of decadence. Any work of art, provide it springs from a sincere motivation to further understanding between people, is an act of faith and therefore is an act of love.
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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've got something inside of me, peasantlike and stubborn, and I'm in it till the end of the race.
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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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