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If you can't be friends with a lover, then forget it. It's not going to work.
Truman Capote
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Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
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Just remember: If one bird carried every grain of sand, grain by grain, across the ocean, by the time he got them all on the other side, that would only be the beginning of eternity.
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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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Gasping for breath, the body still battling for life.
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A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.
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The brain may take advice, but not the heart.
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But it's Sunday, Mr. Bell. Clocks are slow on Sundays.
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It was the most haunting room I've ever seen. Because you know what's in it? All the leftÂovers, all the paraphernalia that the different condemned men had had with them in the holding cells.
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Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town.
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Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.
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I will say only that all a writer has to work with is the material he has gathered as the result of his own endeavor and observations, and he cannot be denied the right to use it. Condemn, but not deny.
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our real fears are the sounds of footsteps walking in the corridors of our minds, and the anxieties, the phantom floatings, they create.
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I told you: you can make yourself love anybody.
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I'm very scared, Buster. Yes, at last. Because it could go on forever. Not knowing what's yours until you've thrown it away.
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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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That's all a writer has to write about - what he sees and hears and what not.
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One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from which it's going to be told.
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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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