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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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One day, I started writing, not knowing that I had chained myself for life to a noble but merciless master. When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip and the whip is intended solely for self-flagellation... I'm here alone in my dark madness, all by myself with my deck of cards - and, of course, the whip God gave me.
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I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart. Which isn't being pious. Just practical. Cancer may cool you, but the other's sure to.
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I've got something inside of me, peasantlike and stubborn, and I'm in it till the end of the race.
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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Gasping for breath, the body still battling for life.
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I don't mean I'd mind being rich and famous. That's very much on my schedule, and someday I'll try to get around to it but if it happens, I'd like to have my ego tagging along. I want to still be me when I wake up one fine morning and have breakfast at Tiffany's.
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I just live one day at a time. That's my new theory in life.
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I'm sure Proust was a big bore.
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The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
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Still, when all is said, somewhere one must belong: even the soaring falcon returns to its master's wrist.
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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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Reading dreams. That's what started her walking down the road. Every day she'd walk a little further: a mile, and come home. Two miles, and come home. One day she just kept on.
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