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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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Most of life is so dull it is not worth discussing, and it is dull at all ages. When we change our brand of cigarette, move to a new neighborhood, subscribe to a different newspaper, fall in and out of love, we are protesting in ways both frivolous and deep against the not to be diluted dullness of day-to-day living.
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Some cities, like wrapped boxes under Christmas trees, conceal unexpected gifts, secret delights. Some cities will always remain wrapped boxes, containers of riddles never to be solved, nor even to be seen by vacationing visitors, or, for that matter, the most inquisitive, persistent travelers.
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You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
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A beautiful day with the buoyancy of a bird.
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I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
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There is no shame — having a dirty face — the shame comes when you keep it dirty.
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A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
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Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.
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When seriously explored, the short story seems to me the most difficult and disciplining form of prose writing extant. Whatever control and technique I may have I owe entirely to my training in this medium.
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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I'll pay you a million dollars if you tell your life story for true.
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I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.
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Sicily is more beautiful than any woman.
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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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