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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
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I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart. Which isn't being pious. Just practical. Cancer may cool you, but the other's sure to.
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I despise people who can't control themselves.
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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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In California everyone goes to a therapist, is a therapist, or is a therapist going to a therapist.
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June, July, all through the warm months she hibernated like a winter animal who did not know spring had come and gone.
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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would you reach in the drawer there and give me my purse. A girl doesn't read this sort of thing without her lipstick.
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Some cities, like wrapped boxes under Christmas trees, conceal unexpected gifts, secret delights. Some cities will always remain wrapped boxes, containers of riddles never to be solved, nor even to be seen by vacationing visitors, or, for that matter, the most inquisitive, persistent travelers.
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all his prayers of the past had been simple concrete requests: God, give me a bicycle, a knife with seven blades, a box of oil paints. Only how, how, could you say something so indefinite, so meaningless as this: God, let me be loved.
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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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You can do films for the fun of it, or the thrill of it, but certain films you can't do unless there's something driving you, something you have a passion for that will pull you through.
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Every day is a new day with me. All holds are off. All contracts are forgotten.
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First, a gorgeous breakfast: just everything you can imagine from flapjacks and fried squirrel to hominy grits and honey in the comb...we're so impatient to get at the presents we can't eat a mouthful.
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Jay Sebring cut my hair a couple of times.
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In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms.
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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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Talent is a valued tormentor.
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There is no shame — having a dirty face — the shame comes when you keep it dirty.
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Still, when all is said, somewhere one must belong: even the soaring falcon returns to its master's wrist.
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But it's Sunday, Mr. Bell. Clocks are slow on Sundays.
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