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Truman Capote

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Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
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New Orleans
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Many universities have asked me to come for a semester but I don't want to do it because I don't have the patience.
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I've tried to believe, but I don't, I can't, and there's no use pretending.
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Work is the only device I know of.
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Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.
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It’s better to look at the sky than live there
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Jay Sebring cut my hair a couple of times.
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I've been working, working, working, and you know, sometimes you look back at your work and you see that it just isn't any good.
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Just remember: If one bird carried every grain of sand, grain by grain, across the ocean, by the time he got them all on the other side, that would only be the beginning of eternity.
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I always felt that nobody was going to understand me, going to understand what I felt about things. I guess that's why I started writing. At least on paper I could put down what I thought.
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Actually, I think friendship and love are exactly the same thing.
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A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
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[Y]outh is hardly human: it can't be, for the young never believe they will die...especially would they never believe that death comes, and often, in forms other than the natural one.
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There is really no practical help that one can offer: it is a matter of self-discovery, of one's own conviction, or working with one's own work your style is what seems natural to you. It is a long process of discovery, one that never ends. I am working at it, and will be as long as I live.
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...of all things this was the saddest, that life goes on: if one leaves one's lover, life should stop for him, and if one disappears from the world, then the world should stop, too: and it never did. And that was the real reason for most people getting up in the morning: not because it would matter but because it wouldn't.
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What I found does the most good is just to get into a taxi and go to Tiffany's. It calms me down right away, the quietness and the proud look of itnothing very bad could happen to you there.
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Life is difficult enough without Meryl Streep movies.
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That's not writing, that's typing
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The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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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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would you reach in the drawer there and give me my purse. A girl doesn't read this sort of thing without her lipstick.
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