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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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When I'm writing, I never write more than four hours a day.
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All writing, all art, is an act of faith. If one tries to contribute to human understanding, how can that be called decadent? It's like saying a declaration of love is an act of decadence. Any work of art, provide 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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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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A disquieting loneliness came into my life, but it induced no hunger for friends of longer acquaintance: they seemed now like a salt-free, sugarless diet.
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All artists are two-headed calves.
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There was an American girl, Priscilla Johnson. She worked for U.P. in Moscow. She knew [John] Kennedy, and she met [Lee Harvey] Oswald around the same time I did. But I can tell you some­thing else almost as curious.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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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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At one time I used to keep notebooks with outlines for stories. But I found doing this somehow deadened the idea in my imagination. If the notion is good enough, if it truly belongs to you, then you can't forget it-it will haunt you till it's written.
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I despise people who can't control themselves.
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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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I just live one day at a time. That's my new theory in life.
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Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town.
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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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The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
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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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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.
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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.
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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