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Truman Capote
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Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
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You call yourself a free spirit, a wild thing, and you're terrified somebody's gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it's not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somali-land. It's wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself.
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Those fellows, they're always crying over killers. Never a thought for the victims.
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It's redundant to die in Los Angeles.
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My father was quite an attractive guy. He was very intelligent and very amusing. I didn't like him. He was always very nice to me but I just didn't like him.
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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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That's the difference between the serious artist and the craftsman--the craftsman can take material and because of his abilities do a professional job of it. The serious artist, like Proust, is like an object caught by a wave and swept to shore. He's obsessed by his material it's like a venom working in his blood and the art is the antidote.
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That isn't writing at all, it's typing.
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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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Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me pegged, because of the way I am, the way I talk. And they're always wrong.
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Work is the only device I know of.
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Never love a wild thing...If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky.
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The wind is us-- it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.
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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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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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I suppose you think I'm very brazen. Or très fou. Or something.' Not at all.' She seemed disappointed. 'Yes, you do. Everybody does. I don't mind. It's useful.
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Most people don't find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don't even know they have great talent.
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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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