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Gasping for breath, the body still battling for life.
Truman Capote
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Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
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All writing, all art, is an act of faith. If one tries to contribute to human understanding, how can that be called decadent? It's like saying a declaration of love is an act of decadence. Any work of art, provide it springs from a sincere motivation to further understanding between people, is an act of faith and therefore is an act of love.
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I don't want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together.
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That's the question: is truth an illusion, or is illusion truth, or are they essentially the same? Myself, I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.
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Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town.
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there is only one unpardonable sin--deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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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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Lively, too. Talky as a jaybird. With something smart to say on every subject: better than the radio.
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Love should be allowed. I’m all for it. Now that I’ve got a pretty good idea what it is.
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It's redundant to die in Los Angeles.
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She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox.
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Oh Jesus God we did belong to each other. He was mine.
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Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.
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I always felt that nobody was going to understand me, going to understand what I felt about things. I guess that's why I started writing. At least on paper I could put down what I thought.
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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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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 think I would have written five times as much as I've written if I didn't have this terrible sense of perfection.
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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