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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
Truman Capote
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Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
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If you can't be friends with a lover, then forget it. It's not going to work.
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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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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 will say only that all a writer has to work with is the material he has gathered as the result of his own endeavor and observations, and he cannot be denied the right to use it. Condemn, but not deny.
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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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She had only one flaw. She was perfect, otherwise whe was perfect.
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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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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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The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
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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 live in Brooklyn. By choice. Those ignorant of its allures are entitled to wonder why.
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Writing in the first person automatically gives you a point of view.
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Never love a wild thing...If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky.
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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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She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox.
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I despise people who can't control themselves.
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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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