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Talent is a valued tormentor.
Truman Capote
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Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
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New Orleans
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Truman Streckfus Persons
Truman Garcia Capote
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It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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I'll never get used to anything. Anybody that does they might as well be dead.
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Writing in the first person automatically gives you a point of view.
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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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When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely.
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Nancy Clutter is always in a hurry, but she always has time. And that's one definition of a lady.
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She had only one flaw. She was perfect, otherwise whe was perfect.
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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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Personally, I rather think that if you're not creative you've got a problem on your hands. If you are creative you've got a double problem.
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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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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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Oh Jesus God we did belong to each other. He was mine.
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It's redundant to die in Los Angeles.
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The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman, because he'll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel.
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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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there is only one unpardonable sin--deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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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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