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Life is difficult enough without Meryl Streep movies.

Truman Capote

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Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
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New Orleans
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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Talent, and genius as well, is like a grain of pearl sand shifting about in the creative mind. A valued tormentor.
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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 don't want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together.
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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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I always write the end of everything first. I always write the last chapters of my books before I write the beginning....Then I go back to the beginning. I mean, it's always nice to know where you're going is my theory.
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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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Gasping for breath, the body still battling for life.
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She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a Flamingo.
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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She sounds the way bananas taste.
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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's redundant to die in Los Angeles.
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All artists are two-headed calves.
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I never had a rejection slip in my life.
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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.
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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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I'll never get used to anything. Anybody that does they might as well be dead.
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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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