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It’s better to look at the sky than live there
Truman Capote
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Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
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I loved her enough to forget myself, my self pitying despairs, and be content that something she thought happy was going to happen.
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I despise people who can't control themselves.
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Past certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder it is best done when one is a child after that, and if you are lucky, you will find a bridge of childhood and walk across it.
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One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from which it's going to be told.
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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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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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I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about.
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