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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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I don't mean I'd mind being rich and famous. That's very much on my schedule, and someday I'll try to get around to it but if it happens, I'd like to have my ego tagging along. I want to still be me when I wake up one fine morning and have breakfast at Tiffany's.
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Never love a wild thing...If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky.
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I just live one day at a time. That's my new theory in life.
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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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I think to be a good teacher you need an enormous amount of patience and I'm a very impatient person.
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Mick Jagger is about as sexy as a pissing toad.
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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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It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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There is no shame — having a dirty face — the shame comes when you keep it dirty.
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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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Talent is a valued tormentor.
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Of course, at their best, movies are anti-literature and, as a medium, belong not to writers, not to actors, but to directors.
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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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I also write the last paragraph or page of a story first. That way I always know what I'm working towards.
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Shoot, boy, the country's just fulla folks what knows everything, and don't understand nothing, just fullofem.
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