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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
Truman Streckfus Persons
Truman Garcia Capote
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A disquieting loneliness came into my life, but it induced no hunger for friends of longer acquaintance: they seemed now like a salt-free, sugarless diet.
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If a man doesn't like baseball, then he must like horses, and if he doesn't like either of them, well, I'm in trouble anyway: he don't like girls.
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Don't wanna sleep, don't wanna die, just wanna go a-travellin' through the pastures of the sky
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Rusty thinks I should smoke marijuana, and I did for a while, but it only makes me giggle.
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But it's Sunday, Mr. Bell. Clocks are slow on Sundays.
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All artists are two-headed calves.
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I thought that Mr. Clutter was a very nice gentleman. I thought so right up to the moment that I cut his throat.
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All writing, all art, is an act of faith. If one tries to contribute to human understanding, how can that be called decadent? It's like saying a declaration of love is an act of decadence. Any work of art, provide 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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But, my dear, so few things are fulfilled: what are most lives but a series of incompleted episodes? 'We work in the dark, we do what we can, we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task...' It is wanting to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something.
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Never demean yourself by talking back to a critic, never. Write those letters to the editor in your head, but don't put them on paper.
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The true beloveds of this world are in their lover's eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends, a child's Sunday, lost voices, one's favorite suit, autumn and all seasons, memory, yes, it being the earth and water of existence, memory.
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I feel that all a writer has is his own experience.
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Oh, I adore to cook. It makes me feel so mindless in a worthwhile way.
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The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His work means nothing, otherwise. It has no meaning.
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I dream of eagles and bring forth sparrows.
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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.
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No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. It scraped me right down to the marrow of my bones. It nearly killed me. I think, in a way, it did kill me.
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A boy has to peddle his book.
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Love should be allowed. I’m all for it. Now that I’ve got a pretty good idea what it is.
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