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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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I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch.
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I thought that Mr. Clutter was a very nice gentleman. I thought so right up to the moment that I cut his throat.
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It should take you about four seconds to walk from here to the door. I'll give you two.
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I never had a rejection slip in my life.
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The average personality re-shapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete overhaul-desirable or not, it is a natural thing that we should change.
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Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
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I'm one of the world's greatest pencil sharpeners.
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Jay Sebring cut my hair a couple of times.
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I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.
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Never demean yourself by talking back to a critic, never. Write those letters to the editor in your head, but don't put them on paper.
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I'm not a philosopher.
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Good luck and believe me, dearest Doc - it's better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear.
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Any work of art, provided it springs from a sincere motivation to further understanding between people, is an act of faith and therefore is an act of love.
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Most contemporary novelists, especially the American and the French, are too subjective, mesmerized by private demons theyre enraptured by their navels and confined by a view that ends with their own toes.
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It's bad enough in life to do without something YOU want but confound it, what gets my goat is not being able to give somebody something you want THEM to have.
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we don't belong to each other: he's an independent, and so am I.
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There is really no practical help that one can offer: it is a matter of self-discovery, of one's own conviction, or working with one's own work your style is what seems natural to you. It is a long process of discovery, one that never ends. I am working at it, and will be as long as I live.
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At one time I used to keep notebooks with outlines for stories. But I found doing this somehow deadened the idea in my imagination. If the notion is good enough, if it truly belongs to you, then you can't forget it-it will haunt you till it's written.
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Sicily is more beautiful than any woman.
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It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something
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