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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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You can do films for the fun of it, or the thrill of it, but certain films you can't do unless there's something driving you, something you have a passion for that will pull you through.
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Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
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I'd met Sharon Tate at the Cannes Film Festival.
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I think to be a good teacher you need an enormous amount of patience and I'm a very impatient person.
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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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I was terribly sure trees and flowers were the same as birds or people. That they thought things and talked among themselves. And we could hear them if we really tried. It was just a matter of emptying your head of all other sounds. Being very quiet and listening very hard. Sometimes I still believe that. But one can never get quiet enough.
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Just remember: If one bird carried every grain of sand, grain by grain, across the ocean, by the time he got them all on the other side, that would only be the beginning of eternity.
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I'm one of the world's greatest pencil sharpeners.
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But, my dear, so few things are fulfilled: what are most lives but a series of incompleted episodes? 'We work in the dark, we do what we can, we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task...' It is wanting to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something.
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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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Writing in the first person automatically gives you a point of view.
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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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I don't want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together.
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The wind is us-- it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.
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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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A beautiful day with the buoyancy of a bird.
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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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My yardstick is how somebody treats me.
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there
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Some prisons don't allow guitar because the strings can be detached and used as weapons.
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