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Writing in the first person automatically gives you a point of view.

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 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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It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
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My father was quite an attractive guy. He was very intelligent and very amusing. I didn't like him. He was always very nice to me but I just didn't like him.
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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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All artists are two-headed calves.
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I don't mean I'd mind being rich and famous. That's very much on my schedule, and someday I'll try to get around to it but if it happens, I'd like to have my ego tagging along. I want to still be me when I wake up one fine morning and have breakfast at Tiffany's.
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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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One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from which it's going to be told.
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Work is the only device I know of.
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You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.
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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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But it's Sunday, Mr. Bell. Clocks are slow on Sundays.
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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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I think most people are very, very much motivated by sex - greed, sex, and hunger.
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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 remember things the way they should have been.
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Shoot, boy, the country's just fulla folks what knows everything, and don't understand nothing, just fullofem.
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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In California everyone goes to a therapist, is a therapist, or is a therapist going to a therapist.
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Then why does Kenneth Anger wear a picture locket on a chain around his neck? On one side of the locket there is a picture of you on the other there is an image of a frog with an inscription: Bobby Beausoleil changed into a frog by Kenneth Anger. A voodoo amulet, so to say.
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