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Any work of art, provided it springs from a sincere motivation to further understanding between people, is an act of faith and therefore is an act of love.
Truman Capote
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Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
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Those fellows, they're always crying over killers. Never a thought for the victims.
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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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Lively, too. Talky as a jaybird. With something smart to say on every subject: better than the radio.
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That isn't writing at all, it's typing.
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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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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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I've been working, working, working, and you know, sometimes you look back at your work and you see that it just isn't any good.
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I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about.
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First, a gorgeous breakfast: just everything you can imagine from flapjacks and fried squirrel to hominy grits and honey in the comb...we're so impatient to get at the presents we can't eat a mouthful.
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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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My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.
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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 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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Shoot, boy, the country's just fulla folks what knows everything, and don't understand nothing, just fullofem.
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I never had a rejection slip in my life.
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