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One always likes one's latest book best. That's a natural feeling.
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Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
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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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If you have a single narrator, a person like an I - 'I' did this and 'I' did that - it automatically solves the most difficult problem in writing.
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Those fellows, they're always crying over killers. Never a thought for the victims.
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Imagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in.
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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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Brazil was beastly but Buenos Aires the best. Not Tiffany's, but almost.
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Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.
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Intelligence alone can't make a good writer and style alone can't make a good writer - that is, not a really important or significant writer - but the two things together make a really good writer.
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there is only one unpardonable sin--deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
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A beautiful day with the buoyancy of a bird.
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Actually, I think friendship and love are exactly the same thing.
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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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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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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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All human life has its seasons and cycles, and no one's personal chaos can be permanent. Winter, after all, gives way to spring and summer, though sometimes when branches stay dark and the earth cracks with ice, one thinks they will never come, that spring, and that summer, but they do, and always.
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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
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Some prisons don't allow guitar because the strings can be detached and used as weapons.
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there
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All writing, all art, is an act of faith. If one tries to contribute to human understanding, how can that be called decadent? It's like saying a declaration of love is an act of decadence. Any work of art, provide 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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I think most people are very, very much motivated by sex - greed, sex, and hunger.
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