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There is such an animal as a nonstylist, only they're not writers - they're typists.
Truman Capote
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Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
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That's not writing, that's typing
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All human life has its seasons and cycles, and no one's personal chaos can be permanent. Winter, after all, gives way to spring and summer, though sometimes when branches stay dark and the earth cracks with ice, one thinks they will never come, that spring, and that summer, but they do, and always.
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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town.
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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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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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The true beloveds of this world are in their lover's eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends, a child's Sunday, lost voices, one's favorite suit, autumn and all seasons, memory, yes, it being the earth and water of existence, memory.
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Some cities, like wrapped boxes under Christmas trees, conceal unexpected gifts, secret delights. Some cities will always remain wrapped boxes, containers of riddles never to be solved, nor even to be seen by vacationing visitors, or, for that matter, the most inquisitive, persistent travelers.
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It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something
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It's bad enough in life to do without something YOU want but confound it, what gets my goat is not being able to give somebody something you want THEM to have.
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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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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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In California everyone goes to a therapist, is a therapist, or is a therapist going to a therapist.
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If you can't be friends with a lover, then forget it. It's not going to work.
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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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When seriously explored, the short story seems to me the most difficult and disciplining form of prose writing extant. Whatever control and technique I may have I owe entirely to my training in this medium.
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But I'm not a saint yet. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm homosexual. I'm a genius.
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I've never had an affair with somebody who wasn't at the same time a very good friend of mine, if you see what I mean.
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