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I think I would have written five times as much as I've written if I didn't have this terrible sense of perfection.
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 was terribly sure trees and flowers were the same as birds or people. That they thought things and talked among themselves. And we could hear them if we really tried. It was just a matter of emptying your head of all other sounds. Being very quiet and listening very hard. Sometimes I still believe that. But one can never get quiet enough.
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When I'm writing, I never write more than four hours a day.
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When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely.
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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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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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Before birth yes, what time was it then? A time like now, and when they were dead, it would be still like now: these trees, that sky, this earth, those acorn seeds, sun and wind, all the same, while they, with dust-turned hearts, change only.
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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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I don't want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together.
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My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.
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