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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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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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You can't blame a writer for what the characters say.
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With one exception everybody who has ever been involved with me is still a great friend of mine.
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I think to be a good teacher you need an enormous amount of patience and I'm a very impatient person.
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She had only one flaw. She was perfect, otherwise whe was perfect.
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Talent is a valued tormentor.
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Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
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I will say only that all a writer has to work with is the material he has gathered as the result of his own endeavor and observations, and he cannot be denied the right to use it. Condemn, but not deny.
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I am always drawn back to places where I have lived, the houses and their neighborhoods.
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Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.
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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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But he does look stupid.' Yearning. Not stupid. He wants awfully to be on the inside staring out: anybody with their nose pressed against a glass is liable to look stupid.
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It's bad enough in life to do without something YOU want but confound it, what gets my goat is not being able to give somebody something you want THEM to have.
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Reading dreams. That's what started her walking down the road. Every day she'd walk a little further: a mile, and come home. Two miles, and come home. One day she just kept on.
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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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