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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.
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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs at one go.
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down.
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Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade, just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
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Our real fears are the sounds of footsteps walking in the corridors of our minds, and the anxieties, the phantom floatings, they create.
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It's a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something down out of them.
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And yes, to answer you seriously, I am beginning to be... well, not bored, but tempted; afraid, but tempted. When you've been in pain for a long time, when you wake up every morning with a rising sense of hysteria, then boredom is what you want, marathon sleeps, a silence in yourself.
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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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Disco is the best floor show in town. It's very democratic, boys with boys, girls with girls, girls with boys, blacks and whites, capitalists and Marxists, Chinese and everything else, all in one big mix.
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Most of life is so dull it is not worth discussing, and it is dull at all ages. When we change our brand of cigarette, move to a new neighborhood, subscribe to a different newspaper, fall in and out of love, we are protesting in ways both frivolous and deep against the not to be diluted dullness of day-to-day living.
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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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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 of myself as a stylist, and stylists can become notoriously obsessed with the placing of a comma, the weight of a semicolon.
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I didn't want to harm the man. I thought he was a very nice gentleman. Soft-spoken. I thought so right up to the moment I cut his throat.
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It should take you about four seconds to walk from here to the door. I'll give you two.
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June, July, all through the warm months she hibernated like a winter animal who did not know spring had come and gone.
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Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun—and just as noisy.
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Great fury, like great whiskey, requires long fermentation.
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He loved her, he loved her, and until he'd loved her she had never minded being alone....
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But, my dear, so few things are fulfilled: what are most lives but a series of incompleted episodes? 'We work in the dark, we do what we can, we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task...' It is wanting to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something.
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Hot weather opens the skull of a city, exposing its white brain, and its heart of nerves, which sizzle like the wires inside a lightbulb. And there exudes a sour extra-human smell that makes the very stone seem flesh-alive, webbed and pulsing.
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Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
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I was kind of a Hershey Bar whore—there wasn't much I wouldn't do for a nickel's worth of chocolate.
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And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came.
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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It was a terrible, strange-looking hotel. But Little Sunshine stayed on: it was his rightful home, he said, for if he went away, as he had once upon a time, other voices, other rooms, voices lost and clouded, strummed his dreams.
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It's a scientific fact that for every year you live in California, you lose two points off your I.Q. It's redundant to die in L.A.
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It seemed odd to Joel that nature did not reflect so solemn an event: flowers of cotton-boll clouds within a sky as scandalously blue as kitten-eyes were offensive to their sweet disrespect.
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Men were only made into "men" with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally "a man" any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.
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Born:
September 30, 1924
Died:
August 25, 1984
(aged 59)
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Truman Capote, born Truman Streckfus Persons, was an American writer.
Known for:
In Cold Blood (1966)
Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948)
Answered Prayers: The Unfinished Novel
Music for Chameleons (1980)
The Grass Harp (1951)
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