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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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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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there is only one unpardonable sin--deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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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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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 think I would have written five times as much as I've written if I didn't have this terrible sense of perfection.
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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Good writing is rewriting.
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She had only one flaw. She was perfect, otherwise whe was perfect.
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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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Love should be allowed. I’m all for it. Now that I’ve got a pretty good idea what it is.
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Half the people who snuff people, that's what they want: recognition. Get their picture in the paper.
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Some prisons don't allow guitar because the strings can be detached and used as weapons.
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When I'm writing, I never write more than four hours a day.
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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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Whatever relationship you have, man or woman, you have to be very attentive and you have to be a very good friend to them regardless of what they do.
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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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I am always drawn back to places where I have lived, the houses and their neighborhoods.
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That isn't writing at all, it's typing.
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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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Shoot, boy, the country's just fulla folks what knows everything, and don't understand nothing, just fullofem.
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