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

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 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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Leave it to me: I'm always top banana in the shock department.
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I always write the end of everything first. I always write the last chapters of my books before I write the beginning....Then I go back to the beginning. I mean, it's always nice to know where you're going is my theory.
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Some prisons don't allow guitar because the strings can be detached and used as weapons.
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But it's Sunday, Mr. Bell. Clocks are slow on Sundays.
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There is no shame — having a dirty face — the shame comes when you keep it dirty.
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I'll pay you a million dollars if you tell your life story for true.
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There is such an animal as a nonstylist, only they're not writers - they're typists.
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Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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New York is a diamond iceberg floating in river water.
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One day, I started writing, not knowing that I had chained myself for life to a noble but merciless master. When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip and the whip is intended solely for self-flagellation... I'm here alone in my dark madness, all by myself with my deck of cards - and, of course, the whip God gave me.
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When seriously explored, the short story seems to me the most difficult and disciplining form of prose writing extant. Whatever control and technique I may have I owe entirely to my training in this medium.
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The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
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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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I think to be a good teacher you need an enormous amount of patience and I'm a very impatient person.
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It's redundant to die in Los Angeles.
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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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Of many magics, one is watching a beloved sleep: free of eyes and awareness, you for a sweet moment hold the heart of him helpless, he is then all, and however irrationally, you have trusted him to be, man-pure, child-tender.
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