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

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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
Truman Streckfus Persons
Truman Garcia Capote
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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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My yardstick is how somebody treats me.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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I'm very scared, Buster. Yes, at last. Because it could go on forever. Not knowing what's yours until you've thrown it away.
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Gasping for breath, the body still battling for life.
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Every day is a new day with me. All holds are off. All contracts are forgotten.
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I also write the last paragraph or page of a story first. That way I always know what I'm working towards.
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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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I'll never get used to anything. Anybody that does they might as well be dead.
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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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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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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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Any work of art, provided 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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