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There is such an animal as a nonstylist, only they're not writers - they're typists.

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Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
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To wake up one morning and feel that I was a last a grown-up person, emptied of resentment, vengeful thoughts and other wasteful childish emotions. To find myself, in other words, an adult. Truman Capote
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It was the most haunting room I've ever seen. Because you know what's in it? All the left­overs, all the paraphernalia that the different condemned men had had with them in the holding cells.
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There is really no practical help that one can offer: it is a matter of self-discovery, of one's own conviction, or working with one's own work your style is what seems natural to you. It is a long process of discovery, one that never ends. I am working at it, and will be as long as I live.
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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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That's all a writer has to write about - what he sees and hears and what not.
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When I'm writing, I never write more than four hours a day.
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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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Past certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder it is best done when one is a child after that, and if you are lucky, you will find a bridge of childhood and walk across it.
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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.
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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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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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Jay Sebring cut my hair a couple of times.
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I just live one day at a time. That's my new theory in life.
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Sicily is more beautiful than any woman.
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When I am writing, I try to do it five hours a day but I spend about two of those just fooling around.
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She sounds the way bananas taste.
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June, July, all through the warm months she hibernated like a winter animal who did not know spring had come and gone.
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If Francoise Sagan hadn't written a book called A Chateau in Sweden, I would certainly write a short story called A Chateau in Puerto Rico. And I may yet.
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Most of life is so dull it is not worth discussing, and it is dull at all ages. When we change our brand of cigarette, move to a new neighborhood, subscribe to a different newspaper, fall in and out of love, we are protesting in ways both frivolous and deep against the not to be diluted dullness of day-to-day living.
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Actually, I think friendship and love are exactly the same thing.
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