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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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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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One always likes one's latest book best. That's a natural feeling.
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Still, when all is said, somewhere one must belong: even the soaring falcon returns to its master's wrist.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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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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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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Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
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New York is the only real city-city.
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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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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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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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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.
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[Y]outh is hardly human: it can't be, for the young never believe they will die...especially would they never believe that death comes, and often, in forms other than the natural one.
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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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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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And since gin to artifice bears the same relation as tears to mascara, her attractions at once dissembled.
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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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Some cities, like wrapped boxes under Christmas trees, conceal unexpected gifts, secret delights. Some cities will always remain wrapped boxes, containers of riddles never to be solved, nor even to be seen by vacationing visitors, or, for that matter, the most inquisitive, persistent travelers.
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Then why does Kenneth Anger wear a picture locket on a chain around his neck? On one side of the locket there is a picture of you on the other there is an image of a frog with an inscription: Bobby Beausoleil changed into a frog by Kenneth Anger. A voodoo amulet, so to say.
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