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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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Leave it to me: I'm always top banana in the shock department.
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All human life has its seasons and cycles, and no one's personal chaos can be permanent. Winter, after all, gives way to spring and summer, though sometimes when branches stay dark and the earth cracks with ice, one thinks they will never come, that spring, and that summer, but they do, and always.
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Dizzy with excitement is no mere phrase.
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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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I'm sure Proust was a big bore.
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Good writing is rewriting.
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The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
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Talent, and genius as well, is like a grain of pearl sand shifting about in the creative mind. A valued tormentor.
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With one exception everybody who has ever been involved with me is still a great friend of mine.
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A disquieting loneliness came into my life, but it induced no hunger for friends of longer acquaintance: they seemed now like a salt-free, sugarless diet.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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I want to still be me when I wake up one fine morning and have breakfast at Tiffany´s.
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