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Are there any writers on the literary scene whom I consider truly great? Yes: Truman Capote.
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Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
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I despise people who can't control themselves.
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In California everyone goes to a therapist, is a therapist, or is a therapist going to a therapist.
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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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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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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Actually, I think friendship and love are exactly the same thing.
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I've never had an affair with somebody who wasn't at the same time a very good friend of mine, if you see what I mean.
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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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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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Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
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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.
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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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You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.
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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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I always felt that nobody was going to understand me, going to understand what I felt about things. I guess that's why I started writing. At least on paper I could put down what I thought.
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I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.
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Technically I feel total fluidity in writing. I feel there's nothing technically that I can't do the way a certain sort of pianist feels that. But that doesn't mean it comes easily. It doesn't.
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
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