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That's all a writer has to write about - what he sees and hears and what not.

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Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
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Oh Jesus God we did belong to each other. He was mine.
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If you can't be friends with a lover, then forget it. It's not going to work.
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Mick Jagger is about as sexy as a pissing toad.
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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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Most of life is so dull it is not worth discussing, and it is dull at all ages. When we change our brand of cigarette, move to a new neighborhood, subscribe to a different newspaper, fall in and out of love, we are protesting in ways both frivolous and deep against the not to be diluted dullness of day-to-day living.
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I think the only person a writer has an obligation to is himself. If what I write doesn't fulfill something in me, if I don't honestly feel it's the best I can do, then I'm miserable.
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Never love a wild thing...If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky.
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I know the next best thing is often the very best.
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I'll pay you a million dollars if you tell your life story for true.
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