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I just live one day at a time. That's my new theory in life.

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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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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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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My yardstick is how somebody treats me.
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Before birth yes, what time was it then? A time like now, and when they were dead, it would be still like now: these trees, that sky, this earth, those acorn seeds, sun and wind, all the same, while they, with dust-turned hearts, change only.
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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All artists are two-headed calves.
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It takes a lot of bad writing to get to a little good writing.
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would you reach in the drawer there and give me my purse. A girl doesn't read this sort of thing without her lipstick.
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The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His work means nothing, otherwise. It has no meaning.
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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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Personally, I rather think that if you're not creative you've got a problem on your hands. If you are creative you've got a double problem.
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You can't blame a writer for what the characters say.
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I suppose you think I'm very brazen. Or très fou. Or something.' Not at all.' She seemed disappointed. 'Yes, you do. Everybody does. I don't mind. It's useful.
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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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Then why does Kenneth Anger wear a picture locket on a chain around his neck? On one side of the locket there is a picture of you on the other there is an image of a frog with an inscription: Bobby Beausoleil changed into a frog by Kenneth Anger. A voodoo amulet, so to say.
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I think most people are very, very much motivated by sex - greed, sex, and hunger.
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She sounds the way bananas taste.
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there is only one unpardonable sin--deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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