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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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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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I don't want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together.
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One day, I started writing, not knowing that I had chained myself for life to a noble but merciless master. When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip and the whip is intended solely for self-flagellation... I'm here alone in my dark madness, all by myself with my deck of cards - and, of course, the whip God gave me.
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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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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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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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Of course, at their best, movies are anti-literature and, as a medium, belong not to writers, not to actors, but to directors.
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Work is the only device I know of.
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I've been working, working, working, and you know, sometimes you look back at your work and you see that it just isn't any good.
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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've never had an affair with somebody who wasn't at the same time a very good friend of mine, if you see what I mean.
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Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
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[L]ove, having no geography, knows no boundaries.
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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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Are the dead as lonesome as the living?
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