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Truman Capote
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Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
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All artists are two-headed calves.
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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.
Truman Capote
My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.
Truman Capote
It’s better to look at the sky than live there
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But, my dear, so few things are fulfilled: what are most lives but a series of incompleted episodes? 'We work in the dark, we do what we can, we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task...' It is wanting to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something.
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One day, I started writing, not knowing that I had chained myself for life to a noble but merciless master. When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip and the whip is intended solely for self-flagellation... I'm here alone in my dark madness, all by myself with my deck of cards - and, of course, the whip God gave me.
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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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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I don't mean I'd mind being rich and famous. That's very much on my schedule, and someday I'll try to get around to it but if it happens, I'd like to have my ego tagging along. I want to still be me when I wake up one fine morning and have breakfast at Tiffany's.
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I am always drawn back to places where I have lived, the houses and their neighborhoods.
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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.
Truman Capote
Writing in the first person automatically gives you a point of view.
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Good writing is rewriting.
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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
[L]ove, having no geography, knows no boundaries.
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It's redundant to die in Los Angeles.
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Intelligence alone can't make a good writer and style alone can't make a good writer - that is, not a really important or significant writer - but the two things together make a really good writer.
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I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.
Truman Capote
I think most people are very, very much motivated by sex - greed, sex, and hunger.
Truman Capote
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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