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I can see every monster as they come in.
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Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
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I'm sure Proust was a big bore.
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I hated Hemingway. I liked Faulkner but he was a bore.
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Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.
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I've lived a lot in communist countries and they're intensely interested in money. I think they are more interested in money than capitalists are. They're the most materialistic people in the world. What they're actually living for is material things. The irony of that is that in communist countries there isn't anything to buy.
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Let's take everything just as it is.
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