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you got to want it to be good, and I don't want it.

Truman Capote

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Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
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My father was quite an attractive guy. He was very intelligent and very amusing. I didn't like him. He was always very nice to me but I just didn't like him.
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...of all things this was the saddest, that life goes on: if one leaves one's lover, life should stop for him, and if one disappears from the world, then the world should stop, too: and it never did. And that was the real reason for most people getting up in the morning: not because it would matter but because it wouldn't.
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Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me pegged, because of the way I am, the way I talk. And they're always wrong.
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You're wonderful. Unique. I love you.
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Talent, and genius as well, is like a grain of pearl sand shifting about in the creative mind. A valued tormentor.
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Everybody has to feel superior to somebody, she said. But it's customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.
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Of many magics, one is watching a beloved sleep: free of eyes and awareness, you for a sweet moment hold the heart of him helpless, he is then all, and however irrationally, you have trusted him to be, man-pure, child-tender.
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Here is a hall without exit, a tunnel without end.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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There’s got to be something wrong with us. To do what we did.
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All literature is gossip.
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With one exception everybody who has ever been involved with me is still a great friend of mine.
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If you sweep a house, and tend its fires and fill its stove, and there is love in you all the years you are doing this, then you and that house are married, that house is yours.
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They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the world: where then could we look for reassurance of our identities?
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What I found does the most good is just to get into a taxi and go to Tiffany's. It calms me down right away, the quietness and the proud look of itnothing very bad could happen to you there.
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