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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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Truman Streckfus Persons
Truman Garcia Capote
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When seriously explored, the short story seems to me the most difficult and disciplining form of prose writing extant. Whatever control and technique I may have I owe entirely to my training in this medium.
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It takes a lot of bad writing to get to a little good writing.
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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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Half the people who snuff people, that's what they want: recognition. Get their picture in the paper.
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But it's Sunday, Mr. Bell. Clocks are slow on Sundays.
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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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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
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I never had a rejection slip in my life.
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I know the next best thing is often the very best.
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Oh Jesus God we did belong to each other. He was mine.
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.
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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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I've never had an affair with somebody who wasn't at the same time a very good friend of mine, if you see what I mean.
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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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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
Truman Capote
The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His work means nothing, otherwise. It has no meaning.
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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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