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You can't blame a writer for what the characters say.

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Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
Actor
Artist
Author
Autobiographer
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
New Orleans
Louisiana
Truman Streckfus Persons
Truman Garcia Capote
Fearless
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I never had a rejection slip in my life.
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I'm sure Proust was a big bore.
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I told you: you can make yourself love anybody.
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I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.
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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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Good writing is rewriting.
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If you can't be friends with a lover, then forget it. It's not going to work.
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I've got something inside of me, peasantlike and stubborn, and I'm in it till the end of the race.
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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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Lively, too. Talky as a jaybird. With something smart to say on every subject: better than the radio.
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Before birth yes, what time was it then? A time like now, and when they were dead, it would be still like now: these trees, that sky, this earth, those acorn seeds, sun and wind, all the same, while they, with dust-turned hearts, change only.
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Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
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