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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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Then why does Kenneth Anger wear a picture locket on a chain around his neck? On one side of the locket there is a picture of you on the other there is an image of a frog with an inscription: Bobby Beausoleil changed into a frog by Kenneth Anger. A voodoo amulet, so to say.
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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I knew Lee Harvey Oswald, and I knew Jack Kennedy. The odds against that-one person knowing all four of those men-must be astounding.
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[L]ove, having no geography, knows no boundaries.
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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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In California everyone goes to a therapist, is a therapist, or is a therapist going to a therapist.
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I never had a rejection slip in my life.
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Norman Mailer thinks William Burroughs is a genius, which I think is ludicrous beyond words. I don't think William Burroughs has an ounce of talent.
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Some cities, like wrapped boxes under Christmas trees, conceal unexpected gifts, secret delights. Some cities will always remain wrapped boxes, containers of riddles never to be solved, nor even to be seen by vacationing visitors, or, for that matter, the most inquisitive, persistent travelers.
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All artists are two-headed calves.
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My yardstick is how somebody treats me.
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When I'm writing, I never write more than four hours a day.
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Leave it to me: I'm always top banana in the shock department.
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Shoot, boy, the country's just fulla folks what knows everything, and don't understand nothing, just fullofem.
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Whatever relationship you have, man or woman, you have to be very attentive and you have to be a very good friend to them regardless of what they do.
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Talent is a valued tormentor.
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Mick Jagger is about as sexy as a pissing toad.
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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Dizzy with excitement is no mere phrase.
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Writing in the first person automatically gives you a point of view.
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