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I remember things the way they should have been.
Truman Capote
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Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
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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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The feeble-minded, the neurotic, the criminal, perhaps, also, the artist, have unpredictability and perverted innocence in common.
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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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My father was quite an attractive guy. He was very intelligent and very amusing. I didn't like him. He was always very nice to me but I just didn't like him.
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I'll never get used to anything. Anybody that does they might as well be dead.
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It was the most haunting room I've ever seen. Because you know what's in it? All the leftÂovers, all the paraphernalia that the different condemned men had had with them in the holding cells.
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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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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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Good writing is rewriting.
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With one exception everybody who has ever been involved with me is still a great friend of mine.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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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 think I would have written five times as much as I've written if I didn't have this terrible sense of perfection.
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I live in Brooklyn. By choice. Those ignorant of its allures are entitled to wonder why.
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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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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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Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.
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One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from which it's going to be told.
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