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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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You can't blame a writer for what the characters say.
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I don't want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together.
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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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That's not writing, that's typing
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There is such an animal as a nonstylist, only they're not writers - they're typists.
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I think most people are very, very much motivated by sex - greed, sex, and hunger.
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Actually, I think friendship and love are exactly the same thing.
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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something
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I remember things the way they should have been.
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Some prisons don't allow guitar because the strings can be detached and used as weapons.
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I'm scarcely an enfant!
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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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I despise people who can't control themselves.
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I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.
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Most contemporary novelists, especially the American and the French, are too subjective, mesmerized by private demons theyre enraptured by their navels and confined by a view that ends with their own toes.
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All human life has its seasons and cycles, and no one's personal chaos can be permanent. Winter, after all, gives way to spring and summer, though sometimes when branches stay dark and the earth cracks with ice, one thinks they will never come, that spring, and that summer, but they do, and always.
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My yardstick is how somebody treats me.
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It was the most haunting room I've ever seen. Because you know what's in it? All the left­overs, all the paraphernalia that the different condemned men had had with them in the holding cells.
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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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