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Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
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To wake up one morning and feel that I was a last a grown-up person, emptied of resentment, vengeful thoughts and other wasteful childish emotions. To find myself, in other words, an adult. Truman Capote
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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That's the question: is truth an illusion, or is illusion truth, or are they essentially the same? Myself, I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.
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I'm sure Proust was a big bore.
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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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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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I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
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I will say only that all a writer has to work with is the material he has gathered as the result of his own endeavor and observations, and he cannot be denied the right to use it. Condemn, but not deny.
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I'll never get used to anything. Anybody that does they might as well be dead.
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You can't blame a writer for what the characters say.
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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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The feeble-minded, the neurotic, the criminal, perhaps, also, the artist, have unpredictability and perverted innocence in common.
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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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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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First, a gorgeous breakfast: just everything you can imagine from flapjacks and fried squirrel to hominy grits and honey in the comb...we're so impatient to get at the presents we can't eat a mouthful.
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I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.
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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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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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Love should be allowed. I’m all for it. Now that I’ve got a pretty good idea what it is.
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Leave it to me: I'm always top banana in the shock department.
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