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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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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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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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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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One day, I started writing, not knowing that I had chained myself for life to a noble but merciless master. When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip and the whip is intended solely for self-flagellation... I'm here alone in my dark madness, all by myself with my deck of cards - and, of course, the whip God gave me.
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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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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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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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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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Leave it to me: I'm always top banana in the shock department.
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She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox. In this case, as opposed to the scrupulous method of good taste and scientific grooming, the trick had been worked by exaggerating defects she'd made them ornamental by admitting them boldly.
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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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I just live one day at a time. That's my new theory in life.
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there is only one unpardonable sin--deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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All human life has its seasons and cycles, and no one's personal chaos can be permanent. Winter, after all, gives way to spring and summer, though sometimes when branches stay dark and the earth cracks with ice, one thinks they will never come, that spring, and that summer, but they do, and always.
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You can do films for the fun of it, or the thrill of it, but certain films you can't do unless there's something driving you, something you have a passion for that will pull you through.
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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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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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When I make fried chicken I always serve masses and masses of fresh mangos. It's a great combination.
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Reading dreams. That's what started her walking down the road. Every day she'd walk a little further: a mile, and come home. Two miles, and come home. One day she just kept on.
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