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I feel that all a writer has is his own experience.

Truman Capote

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Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
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When I'm writing, I never write more than four hours a day.
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But it's Sunday, Mr. Bell. Clocks are slow on Sundays.
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The wind is us-- it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.
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The instant she saw the letter she squinted her eyes and bent her lips in a tough tiny smile that advanced her age immeasurably. Darling, she instructed me, 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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