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I know the next best thing is often the very best.

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
Louisiana
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A beautiful day with the buoyancy of a bird.
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I'm not a philosopher.
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New York is the only real city-city.
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If you happen to capture my imagination for some reason and I decide to write about you and you don't like what I wrote about you, which is entirely possible, then yes, I'm a dangerous writer.
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But I'm not a saint yet. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm homosexual. I'm a genius.
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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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Nancy Clutter is always in a hurry, but she always has time. And that's one definition of a lady.
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I couldn't understand a sense of unease that multiplied until I could hear my heart beating.
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I don't mean I'd mind being rich and famous. That's very much on my schedule, and someday I'll try to get around to it but if it happens, I'd like to have my ego tagging along. I want to still be me when I wake up one fine morning and have breakfast at Tiffany's.
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She took off her dark glasses and squinted at me. It was as though her eyes were shattered prisms, the dots of blue and gray and green like broken bits of sparkle.
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My yardstick is how somebody treats me.
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That's not writing, that's typing
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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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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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Shoot, boy, the country's just fulla folks what knows everything, and don't understand nothing, just fullofem.
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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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Hulga the whole while hollering like a half-slaughtered hog. (Attention, students of literature! Alliteration - have you noticed? - is my least vice.)
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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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Personally, I rather think that if you're not creative you've got a problem on your hands. If you are creative you've got a double problem.
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