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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
Artist
Author
Autobiographer
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
New Orleans
Louisiana
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Live
Breakfast
Look
Disappear
Looks
Sky
Country
Luck
Believe
Empty
Good
Goes
Dearest
Things
Place
Thunder
Better
Vague

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