I've tried to believe, but I don't, I can't, and there's no use pretending.
("In Cold Blood")
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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.Truman Capote
Poor slob without a name. It's a little inconvenient, his not having a name. But I haven't the right to give him one: he'll have to wait until he belongs to somebody. We just sort of took up by the river one day, we don't belong to each other: he's an independent, and so am I. I don't want to own anything until I know I've found the place where me and things belong together.
Truman Capote
I am always drawn back to places where I have lived, the houses and their neighborhoods.
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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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I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about.
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It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something.
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