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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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Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
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I know the next best thing is often the very best.
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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But, my dear, so few things are fulfilled: what are most lives but a series of incompleted episodes? 'We work in the dark, we do what we can, we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task...' It is wanting to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something.
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I knew Lee Harvey Oswald, and I knew Jack Kennedy. The odds against that-one person knowing all four of those men-must be astounding.
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Personally, I rather think that if you're not creative you've got a problem on your hands. If you are creative you've got a double problem.
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You can do films for the fun of it, or the thrill of it, but certain films you can't do unless there's something driving you, something you have a passion for that will pull you through.
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First, a gorgeous breakfast: just everything you can imagine from flapjacks and fried squirrel to hominy grits and honey in the comb...we're so impatient to get at the presents we can't eat a mouthful.
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Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
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The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
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I'll pay you a million dollars if you tell your life story for true.
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Half the people who snuff people, that's what they want: recognition. Get their picture in the paper.
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The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman, because he'll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel.
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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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I am always drawn back to places where I have lived, the houses and their neighborhoods.
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Leave it to me: I'm always top banana in the shock department.
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[L]ove, having no geography, knows no boundaries.
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That's all a writer has to write about - what he sees and hears and what not.
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I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.
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She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox.
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Those fellows, they're always crying over killers. Never a thought for the victims.
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