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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.
Truman Capote
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Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
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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'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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That's the question: is truth an illusion, or is illusion truth, or are they essentially the same? Myself, I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.
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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 love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.
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I never had a rejection slip in my life.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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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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Norman Mailer thinks William Burroughs is a genius, which I think is ludicrous beyond words. I don't think William Burroughs has an ounce of talent.
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The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His work means nothing, otherwise. It has no meaning.
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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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I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about.
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She had only one flaw. She was perfect, otherwise whe was perfect.
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Sicily is more beautiful than any woman.
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Talent is a valued tormentor.
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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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That's not writing, that's typing
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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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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Oh Jesus God we did belong to each other. He was mine.
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