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I'm not a character in any of my books.

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Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
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A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.
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I loved her enough to forget myself, my self pitying despairs, and be content that something she thought happy was going to happen.
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Mick Jagger is about as sexy as a pissing toad.
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Writing in the first person automatically gives you a point of view.
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Of course, at their best, movies are anti-literature and, as a medium, belong not to writers, not to actors, but to directors.
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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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It was the most haunting room I've ever seen. Because you know what's in it? All the left­overs, all the paraphernalia that the different condemned men had had with them in the holding cells.
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Some prisons don't allow guitar because the strings can be detached and used as weapons.
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When I am writing, I try to do it five hours a day but I spend about two of those just fooling around.
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The wind is us-- it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there
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June, July, all through the warm months she hibernated like a winter animal who did not know spring had come and gone.
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I've got something inside of me, peasantlike and stubborn, and I'm in it till the end of the race.
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There is no shame — having a dirty face — the shame comes when you keep it dirty.
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A beautiful day with the buoyancy of a bird.
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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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But he does look stupid.' Yearning. Not stupid. He wants awfully to be on the inside staring out: anybody with their nose pressed against a glass is liable to look stupid.
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But it's Sunday, Mr. Bell. Clocks are slow on Sundays.
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Jay Sebring cut my hair a couple of times.
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