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I'm sure Proust was a big bore.
Truman Capote
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Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
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Good writing is rewriting.
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My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.
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I live in Brooklyn. By choice. Those ignorant of its allures are entitled to wonder why.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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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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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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Some prisons don't allow guitar because the strings can be detached and used as weapons.
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Nancy Clutter is always in a hurry, but she always has time. And that's one definition of a lady.
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There is such an animal as a nonstylist, only they're not writers - they're typists.
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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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Traveling wears me out.
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Half the people who snuff people, that's what they want: recognition. Get their picture in the paper.
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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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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Oh Jesus God we did belong to each other. He was mine.
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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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Technically I feel total fluidity in writing. I feel there's nothing technically that I can't do the way a certain sort of pianist feels that. But that doesn't mean it comes easily. It doesn't.
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She had only one flaw. She was perfect, otherwise whe was perfect.
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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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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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