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There’s got to be something wrong with us. To do what we did.

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Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
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Of course people couldn't help but think I must be a bit of a dyke myself. And of course I am. Everyone is: a bit. So what? That never discouraged a man yet, in fact it seems to goad them on.
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So the days, the last days, blow about in a memory, hazy autumnal, all alike as leaves: until a day unlike any other I've lived
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I'll never get used to anything. Anybody that does they might as well be dead.
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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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The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love, having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface.
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I've never worked for a newspaper. I've had some very bad reviews in newspapers.
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I also write the last paragraph or page of a story first. That way I always know what I'm working towards.
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A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.
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Most people who become suddenly famous overnight will find that they lose practically eighty percent of their friends. Your old friends just can't stand it for some reason.
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
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And yes, to answer you seriously, I am beginning to be... well, not bored, but tempted afraid, but tempted. When you've been in pain for a long time, when you wake up every morning with a rising sense of hysteria, then boredom is what you want, marathon sleeps, a silence in yourself.
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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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Past certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder it is best done when one is a child after that, and if you are lucky, you will find a bridge of childhood and walk across it.
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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.
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all his prayers of the past had been simple concrete requests: God, give me a bicycle, a knife with seven blades, a box of oil paints. Only how, how, could you say something so indefinite, so meaningless as this: God, let me be loved.
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you got to want it to be good, and I don't want it.
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I was terribly sure trees and flowers were the same as birds or people. That they thought things and talked among themselves. And we could hear them if we really tried. It was just a matter of emptying your head of all other sounds. Being very quiet and listening very hard. Sometimes I still believe that. But one can never get quiet enough.
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Gasping for breath, the body still battling for life.
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It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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