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Good luck and believe me, dearest Doc - it's better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear.

Truman Capote

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Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
Actor
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Autobiographer
Journalist
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New Orleans
Louisiana
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Look
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Luck
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Dearest
Things
Place
Thunder

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