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That's all a writer has to write about - what he sees and hears and what not.
Truman Capote
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Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
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My yardstick is how somebody treats me.
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all his prayers of the past had been simple concrete requests: God, give me a bicycle, a knife with seven blades, a box of oil paints. Only how, how, could you say something so indefinite, so meaningless as this: God, let me be loved.
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She had only one flaw. She was perfect, otherwise whe was perfect.
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How do I look so young? Quite simple: a complete vegetable diet, 12 hours sleep a night, and lots and lots of make-up.
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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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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I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.
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